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Tiny dial made delicately (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

daintily

'delicately' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'tiny dial made' is the wordplay.
'made' indicates an anagram.
'tiny'+'dial'='tinydial'
'tinydial' is an anagram of 'DAINTILY'.

(Other definitions for daintily that I've seen before include "without clumsiness" , "in a fastidious manner" , "genteel manner" , "elegance" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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