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With newspaper and string wrap present unofficially (3,3,6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

off the record

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'unofficially' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'with newspaper and string wrap present' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'newspaper' could be 'ft' (Financial Times newspaper) and 'ft' is present in the answer.
'string' could be 'cord' (I've seen this before) and 'cord' is found in the answer.
'present' could be 'here' (both can mean in attendance) and 'here' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'of' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for off the record that I've seen before include "Confidential - not for attribution" , "Deleted from disc" , "in a minute? No" , "Not to be made public" , "not intended for release?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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