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Craftily fashioned form of tray (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

arty

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'craftily fashioned' is the definition.
The answer and definition are not the same part of speech. However, adjectives and past participle verbs occasionally mean the same thing.

'form of tray' is the wordplay.
'form of' is an anagram indicator (the letters need to be in another 'form').
'tray' with letters rearranged gives 'ARTY'.

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(Other definitions for arty that I've seen before include "Having pretensions about paintings, music, etc" , "Pretentiously affected" , "Affectedly cultural" , "Having affected interest in visual creativity" , "aspiring to be creative?" .)

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