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Wearing old hat, perform material (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tactile

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'material' is the definition.

'wearing old hat perform' is the wordplay.
'wearing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'old hat' becomes 'tile' (I've seen this before. I am not sure about the 'old' bit.).
'perform' becomes 'act' (acting is a kind of performing).
'tile' enclosing 'act' is 'TACTILE'.

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(Other definitions for tactile that I've seen before include "Using the sense of touch as in lattice" , "Lattice being sensitive to touch" , "Cattle I find with sense of touch" , "Touchy" , "Based on the sense of touch" .)

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