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Attractive lace with marvellous wrapping (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

magnetic

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'attractive' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)

'lace with marvellous wrapping' is the wordplay.
'lace with' becomes 'net' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'marvellous' becomes 'magic' (I've seen this before).
'wrapping' indicates putting letters inside.
'net' inserted into 'magic' is 'MAGNETIC'.

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(Other definitions for magnetic that I've seen before include "Very attractive or alluring" , "attractive result" , "Drawing" , "Having the power to attract" , "Attracting iron or steel" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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