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Provides the money to move Times? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

budgets

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'times?' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to thinking as well as being verbs in their -s form.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'provides the money to move' is the wordplay.
'provides the money' becomes 'ts' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'move' becomes 'budge' (to budge is to move slightly).
'ts' after 'budge' is 'BUDGETS'.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Another definition for budgets that I've seen is " spending plans".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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