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Plain type of hospital shoots up (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sanserif

'plain type' is the definition.
(san serif is a type of typeface)

'hospital shoots up' is the wordplay.
'hospital' becomes 'san' (short for sanatorium).
'shoots' becomes 'fires' (firing is a kind of shooting).
'up' shows that the letters should be reversed in order (in down clue: letters go upwards).
'fires' backwards is 'serif'.
'san'+'serif'='SANSERIF'

'of' is the link.

(Other definitions for sanserif that I've seen before include "Fairness (anag) - printing type" , "font" , "Type without projection on letters" , "Style of typeface" , "Printing type style" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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