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Upset that dodgy actress secures vehicles (6,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

estate cars

'vehicles' is the definition.
(estate car is a kind of vehicle)

'upset that dodgy actress secures' is the wordplay.
'upset' becomes 'ate' (to eat up is worry or upset).
'that dodgy' indicates an anagram (a dodgy or wrong order of the letters).
'secures' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'actress' anagrammed gives 'estcars'.
'ate' inserted within 'estcars' is 'ESTATE CARS'.

(Another definition for estate cars that I've seen is " Vehicles".)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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