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Rounds up buck that gets up without her (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

gathers

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'rounds up' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with contact as well as being verbs in their -s form.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?

'buck that gets up without her' is the wordplay.
'buck' becomes 'stag' (stag is a kind of buck).
'that gets up' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'without' means one lot of letters goes inside another ('without' can be similar in meaning to 'outside').
'stag' written backwards gives 'gats'.
'gats' going around 'her' is 'GATHERS'.

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(Other definitions for gathers that I've seen before include "Harvests" , "Assembles" , "The rags (anag.)" , "Part of dress" , "Collects in one place" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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