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Victor trapped in a depression finds Dawn (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

advent

'dawn' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'victor trapped in a depression' is the wordplay.
'victor' becomes 'V' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'trapped in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'depression' becomes 'dent' (dent is a kind of depression).
'a'+'dent'='adent'
'v' put inside 'adent' is 'ADVENT'.

'finds' is the link.

(Other definitions for advent that I've seen before include "Second Coming" , "Christmas shopping time in" , "when the Church year begins" , "Time approaching Christmas" , "Period in the Christian calendar" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent and The Sun.
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