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Take place in middle of row C with dog (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

occur

'take place' is the definition.
('occur' can be a synonym of 'take place')

'middle of row c with dog' is the wordplay.
'middle of' says to take the centre.
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'dog' becomes 'cur' (cur is a kind of dog).
The middle letter of 'row' is 'o'.
'o'+'c'+'cur'='OCCUR'

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for occur that I've seen before include "Come to pass" , "appear" , "Spring to mind" , "crop up" , "Turn up" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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