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Touching performance in bit of board game? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tactile

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

'performance in bit of board game?' is the wordplay.
'performance' becomes 'act' (act is a kind of performance).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'bit of board game?' becomes 'tile' (eg a Scrabble tile).
'act' inserted within 'tile' is 'TACTILE'.

(Other definitions for tactile that I've seen before include "be felt" , "Cattle I find with sense of touch" , "Hands-on" , "Relating to the sense of touch" , "Tangible - of touch" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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