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Predict change under Foreign Office (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

forecast

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'predict' is the definition.
(I know that forecast is a more specific form of predict)

'change under foreign office' is the wordplay.
'change' becomes 'recast' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'under' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (in a down clue, some letters go below others).
'foreign office' becomes 'FO' (abbreviation).
'recast' after 'fo' is 'FORECAST'.

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(Other definitions for forecast that I've seen before include "Fear Scot in prediction" , "Divine" , "Predict as with weather" , "Predict (event)" , "Prophecy" .)

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