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Police search for suspect in flowering garden close to Parliament (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dragnet

'police search for suspect' is the definition.
(a dragnet is a police search)

'flowering garden close to parliament' is the wordplay.
'flowering' is an anagram indicator (letters develop or 'flower' into another form).
'close to' suggests the final letters (the close/ending of).
The last letter of 'parliament' is 't'.
'garden' is an anagram of 'dragne'.
'dragne'+'t'='DRAGNET'

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for dragnet that I've seen before include "hunt for suspect" , "Intense police search for suspect" , "Granted, this may be an organised system of gathering in" , "Systematic search (for criminals)" , "Fisherman might have one" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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