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Walk over hot stuff (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

march

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'walk' is the definition.
(I know that march is a more specific form of the action the walk)

'over hot stuff' is the wordplay.
'over' says to put letters next to each other (in a down clue, some letters go over others).
'hot' becomes 'h' (abbreviation, eg on taps).
'stuff' becomes 'marc' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'h' put after 'marc' is 'MARCH'.

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(Other definitions for march that I've seen before include "Stride; month" , "Spring" , "Moving demonstration" , "Military walk; month" , "that happens fairly early each year" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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