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Spins jars storing last of honey (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

gyrates

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'spins' is the definition.
('gyrate' can be a synonym of 'spin')

'jars storing last of honey' is the wordplay.
'jars' becomes 'grates' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'storing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'last of' suggests the final letters.
The final letter of 'honey' is 'y'.
'grates' placed around 'y' is 'GYRATES'.

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(Other definitions for gyrates that I've seen before include "Is spinner" , "Goes round and round" , "Moves in a spiral course" , "Circles" , "turns" .)

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