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Tyres can burst in race (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ancestry

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

'tyres can burst' is the wordplay.
'burst' indicates an anagram.
'tyres'+'can'='tyrescan'
'tyrescan' anagrammed gives 'ANCESTRY'.

'in' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for ancestry that I've seen before include "Blood line" , "Genealogy" , "Line of forebears" , "Any crest (anag.)" , "race" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph and The Globe and Mail.
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