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Swear, getting awful job on Yorkshire river (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

objure

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'swear' is the definition.
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'awful job on yorkshire river' is the wordplay.
'awful' indicates an anagram.
'on' means one lot of letters go next to another (in a down clue, letters appear on others).
'yorkshire river' becomes 'ure' (River Ure).
'job' anagrammed gives 'obj'.
'obj'+'ure'='OBJURE'

'getting' is the link.

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