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Want to embed the point in the wrong end (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

need

'want' is the definition.
(I know that want can be written as need)

'embed the point in the wrong end' is the wordplay.
'the point' indicates taking the first letters (an end or point of the word).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'the wrong' indicates an anagram.
The initial letter of 'embed' is 'e'.
'end' with letters rearranged gives 'ned'.
'e' going within 'ned' is 'NEED'.

'to' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for need that I've seen before include "Require (as essential)" , "Call" , "Necessitate" , "state of distress" , "Want - poverty" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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