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Question making small couch in pine (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dispute

'question' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'small couch in pine' is the wordplay.
'small' becomes 's' (abbreviation - e.g. clothes size).
'couch' becomes 'put' (synonyms).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'pine' becomes 'die' (dying is a kind of pining).
's'+'put'='sput'
'sput' going inside 'die' is 'DISPUTE'.

'making' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for dispute that I've seen before include "conflict" , "Altercate" , "Row" , "Altercation" , "Disagree or challenge" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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