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They dry in spring time in this person's place (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

oasts

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'they' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are plural nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'dry in spring time in this person's place' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'time' could be 't' and 't' is present in the answer.
'person's' could be 'ass' (ass is a kind of person) and 'ass' is located in the remaining letters.
A single letter 'o' remains which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for oasts that I've seen before include "Malt dryers" , "Houses" , "Kilns for drying hops" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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