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What leaders of building industry near Dubai do to entrance? (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

spellbind

'to entrance?' is the definition.
('spellbind' can be a synonym of 'entrance')

'what leaders of building industry near dubai' is the wordplay.
'what' becomes 'spell' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'leaders of' says to take the initial letters.
The first letters of 'building industry near dubai' is 'bind'.
'spell'+'bind'='SPELLBIND'

'do' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. It may be part of another bit of the clue.

(Other definitions for spellbind that I've seen before include "entrance" , "grip" , "Hold rapt" , "Enrapture" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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