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Use announced for trees (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

yews

'trees' is the definition.
(yew is a kind of tree)

'use announced' is the wordplay.
'announced' indicates a 'sounds like' (homophone) clue.
'use' sounds like 'YEWS'.

'for' is the link.

(Other definitions for yews that I've seen before include "woods" , "traditional churchyard residents" , "Evergreen trees" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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