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Woolly I pressed should be separate (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

disperse

'separate' is the definition.
(dispersing is a kind of separating)

'woolly i pressed' is the wordplay.
'woolly' indicates an anagram (I've seen this in other clues).
'i'+'pressed'='ipressed'
'ipressed' is an anagram of 'DISPERSE'.

'should be' is the link.

(Other definitions for disperse that I've seen before include "Scatter, break up" , "Broadcast" , "Presides so as to scatter" , "Thin out and disappear" , "Break up, move away from each other" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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