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Scare off animals round edge of forest (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

deter

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'scare off' is the definition.
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'animals round edge of forest' is the wordplay.
'animals' becomes 'deer'.
'round' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'edge of forest' becomes 't' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'deer' placed around 't' is 'DETER'.

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(Other definitions for deter that I've seen before include "Dishearten" , "Try to prevent" , "Discourage or impede" , "Put (someone) off" , "Warn off" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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