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Painter's title describing witch (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

chagall

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'painter's' is the definition.
(Marc Chagall)

'title describing witch' is the wordplay.
'title' becomes 'call' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'describing' indicates putting letters inside (describe can mean to form the outline of).
'witch' becomes 'hag' (synonyms).
'call' going around 'hag' is 'CHAGALL'.

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(Other definitions for chagall that I've seen before include "Marc --, Russian-French artist" , "He painted" , "Marc --, Russian artist" , "Russian-born painter" , "Marc -, twentieth century Russian-born French artist" .)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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