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Struggle with appearance (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

view

'appearance' is the definition.
(view is a kind of appearance)

'struggle with' is the wordplay.
'struggle' becomes 'vie' (I've seen this before).
'with' becomes 'w' (abbreviation).
'vie'+'w'='VIEW'

(Other definitions for view that I've seen before include "Survey - opinion" , "Consider" , "Range or field of vision" , "See" , "Perspective" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent and The Telegraph.
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