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Play day in pool (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fund

'pool' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'play day' is the wordplay.
'play' becomes 'fun' ('fun' can be a synonym of 'play'**).
'day' becomes 'd'.
'fun'+'d'='FUND'

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for fund that I've seen before include "Stock, resources" , "Pool of money" , "Finance" , "Sum of money set aside for a purpose" , "Stock of money available for particular purpose" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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