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Wrong to have street artists seized in the outskirts of Albany (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

astray

'wrong' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'street artists seized in the outskirts of albany' is the wordplay.
'street' becomes 'st'.
'artists' becomes 'ra' (Royal Academy).
'seized in' is an insertion indicator.
'the outskirts of' means to remove the middle letters.
'albany' with its centre taken out is 'ay'.
'st'+'ra'='stra'
'stra' placed within 'ay' is 'ASTRAY'.

'to have' is the link.

(Other definitions for astray that I've seen before include "wrong way" , "Off course - wrong - misled" , "Wandering, off course" , "in the wrong place" , "Wandering lost" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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