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Visitor admits address is helpful for someone who wants to go for walks (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

calliper

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'visitor admits address is helpful for someone who wants to go for walks' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how one could define the other.

'visitor admits address' is the wordplay.
'visitor' becomes 'caller' (caller is a kind of visitor).
'admits' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'address' becomes 'ip' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'caller' going around 'ip' is 'CALLIPER'.

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(Other definitions for calliper that I've seen before include "Instrument for measuring the distance between two points" , "Instrument to measure distance between two points" , "Measuring device with two hinged prongs attached to a scale" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times (Crosaire) and the Irish Times.
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