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Naturally colourful, it looks excellent in brown perhaps (7)

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rainbow

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'naturally colourful it looks' is the definition.
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'excellent in brown perhaps' is the wordplay.
'excellent' becomes 'ai' (resembles 'A1', old-fashioned term for excellent).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'perhaps' is an anagram indicator.
'brown' with letters rearranged gives 'rnbow'.
'ai' put inside 'rnbow' is 'RAINBOW'.

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(Other definitions for rainbow that I've seen before include "Light effect in sky" , "I won bra (anag.)" , "Water-colour production" , "Multi-coloured arc in the sky" , "Spectral display" .)

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