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Scour hurriedly around gold grating (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

raucous

'grating' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'scour hurriedly around gold' is the wordplay.
'hurriedly' indicates anagramming the letters (writing too quickly, you might mix up letters).
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'gold' becomes 'Au' (Au is the chemical symbol for gold).
'scour' is an anagram of 'rcous'.
'rcous' enclosing 'au' is 'RAUCOUS'.

(Other definitions for raucous that I've seen before include "Harsh, noisy" , "Discordantly loud" , "Wildly noisy" , "Noisy and harsh-sounding" , "Unpleasantly loud and harsh" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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