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With 68-Across, deceive ... or a hint to how the spellings of the starred clues' answers were formed? (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fake

(Other definitions for fake that I've seen before include "Bogus" , "Only pretend" , "Fraud" , "Spurious" , "Forge(ry)" .)

I've seen this clue in the Universal.
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