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Sound a thick-headed person (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tone

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'sound' is the definition.
(I know that tone is a type of sound)

'a thick-headed person' is the wordplay.
'a thick-headed' becomes 't' (this might be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
'person' becomes 'one' ('one' can mean an unspecified person).
't'+'one'='TONE'

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(Other definitions for tone that I've seen before include "Pitch of a voice" , "Colour quality; note" , "Pitch (sound)" , "Musical note; general character" , "accent" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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