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Searched town two from Delaware brought up (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

trawled

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'searched' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are past participle verbs, I cannot understand how one could define the other.

'town two from delaware brought up' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'town' could be 't' (common abbreviation eg in football team names) and 't' is found in the answer.
'brought' could be 'led' (I've seen this in another clue) and 'led' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'raw' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for trawled that I've seen before include "Used a net at sea" , "Fished with large net dragged along bottom of sea" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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