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Trail tours, catching a source of entertainment (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

traipse

'trail' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'tours catching a source of entertainment' is the wordplay.
'tours' becomes 'trips' (both can mean journeys or voyages).
'catching' is an insertion indicator.
'source of' indicates taking the first letters (the start - or source - of the word).
The first letter of 'entertainment' is 'e'.
'trips' placed around 'a' is 'traips'.
'traips'+'e'='TRAIPSE'

(Other definitions for traipse that I've seen before include "make slow progress" , "long tiring walk" , "Tedious walk" , "laborious walk" , "travel wearily" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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