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They run round rooms ignoring what occurs before M put Bond girls at risk somehow (8-6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

skirting-boards

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'they run round rooms ignoring what occurs before m put bond girls' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.

'at risk somehow' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'at' could be 'in' (synonymous in some cases - eg at school, in school) and 'in' is found in the answer.
an anagram of 'risk' is 'skir' which is within the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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