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Several points covered in oddly airy response (6)

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I believe the answer is:

answer

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'response' is the definition.
(answer is a kind of response)

'several points covered in oddly airy' is the wordplay.
'several points' becomes 'nswe' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'covered in' is an insertion indicator.
'oddly' indicates alternate letters (letters in odd-numbered positions).
The alternating letters of 'airy' are 'ar'.
'nswe' placed inside 'ar' is 'ANSWER'.

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(Other definitions for answer that I've seen before include "fit" , "Acknowledge" , "Response to a question" , "'Daisy, Daisy, give me your ...... do'" , "Response - solution" .)

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