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Mean to follow this middle course (6)

Ross

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golden

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'follow this middle course' is the wordplay.
'follow' becomes 'segue'.
'this middle' means to look at the middle letters.
'course' becomes 'olden' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The middle letter of 'segue' is 'g'.
'g'+'olden'='GOLDEN'

'to' is the link.

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(Other definitions for golden that I've seen before include "Valuable" , "Colour of the fleece sought by Jason" , "In Woodstock we are this" , "Type of apple" , "Excellent" .)

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