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The old tyres are fixed in the past (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

yesteryear

'in the past' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'the old tyres are fixed' is the wordplay.
'the old' becomes 'ye' (resembles a historical spelling of 'the').
'fixed' indicates anagramming the letters.
'tyres'+'are'='tyresare'
'tyresare' is an anagram of 'steryear'.
'ye'+'steryear'='YESTERYEAR'

(Other definitions for yesteryear that I've seen before include "Period 14 [CENTENARIAN] lived through" , "Rossetti's translation questioned whereabouts of its snows!" , "Days gone by" , "Twelve months ago" , "Days of old (poet.)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times and The Sunday Times.
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