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Taking care of tour's start and finish (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tending

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'taking care of' is the definition.
(tending is a kind of taking care of)

'tour's start and finish' is the wordplay.
'tour's start' becomes 't' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'finish' becomes 'ending' (I've seen this before).
't'+'ending'='TENDING'

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(Other definitions for tending that I've seen before include "Taking care of or leaning towards" , "Naturally disposed toward" , "Waiting on" .)

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