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Gloves picked up, going round area right now (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

statim

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'right now' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.

'gloves picked up going round area' is the wordplay.
'gloves' becomes 'mitts' ('mitt' can be a synonym of 'glove').
'picked up' is a reversal indicator.
'going round' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters go around others).
'area' becomes 'a' (maths abbreviation).
'mitts' written backwards gives 'sttim'.
'sttim' going around 'a' is 'STATIM'.

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(Another definition for statim that I've seen is " Immediately (Latin)".)

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