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Skip — nothing massive initially to put on it (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

omit

'skip' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'nothing massive initially to put on it' is the wordplay.
'nothing' becomes 'o' (looks like zero - 0).
'initially' suggests taking the first letters.
'to put on' says to put letters next to each other.
The first letter of 'massive' is 'm'.
'o'+'m'+'it'='OMIT'

(Other definitions for omit that I've seen before include "Leave out or fail to do" , "Drop" , "Miss out" , "Fail to include" , "Leave out or exclude" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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