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Part of a needle or hurricane (3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

eye

(Other definitions for eye that I've seen before include "'Cast a cold ... on life, on death' (Yeats)" , "Keep watch on" , "potato bud" , "Middle of storm" , "Viewer" .)

I've seen this clue in The New York Times.
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