Appearance from wild apes? About time (6)

I believe the answer is:

aspect

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'appearance' is the definition.
(I know that aspect is a type of countenance)

'wild apes? about time' is the wordplay.
'wild' indicates anagramming the letters.
'about' is a reversal indicator.
'time' becomes 'tc' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'tc' reversed gives 'ct'.
'apes' is an anagram of 'aspe'.
'aspe'+'ct'='ASPECT'

'from' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for aspect that I've seen before include "View, panorama" , "front" , "'Appearance, facet (6)'" , "Particular part or feature of something" , "Visual effect" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.

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