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Sport unexciting after Ed departs, as one sees with rock-climbing? (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

rupestrian

'as one sees with rock-climbing?' is the definition.
('rupestrian' means relating to art done on rocks)

'sport unexciting after ed departs' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'sport' could be 'ru' (rugby union) and 'ru' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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