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Complete home: perhaps dab on the outside (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

finish

'complete' is the definition.
('finish' can be a synonym of 'complete')

'home perhaps dab on the outside' is the wordplay.
'home' becomes 'in' ('he's home' can mean 'he's in').
'perhaps dab' becomes 'fish' (dab is a type of fish).
'on the outside' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'in' put into 'fish' is 'FINISH'.

(Other definitions for finish that I've seen before include "completion" , "'End, close (6)'" , "Conclude, end" , "Bring to an end" , "Patina" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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