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Small paper and grass skirts something seen on star (7)

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I believe the answer is:

sunspot

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'something seen on star' is the definition.
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'small paper and grass skirts' is the wordplay.
'small' becomes 's' (abbreviation - e.g. clothes size).
'paper' becomes 'sun ' (The Sun, UK newspaper).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'grass' becomes 'pot' (cannabis).
'skirts' means one lot of letters goes inside another (skirt can mean to go around).
'sun'+'pot'='sunpot'
's' inserted inside 'sunpot' is 'SUNSPOT'.

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(Other definitions for sunspot that I've seen before include "cause of magnetic storm" , "Dark cool patch on the surface of our nearest star" , "Cool solar area" , "Cool darker patch on our star" , "warm place" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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