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Fling odd spots of ink on interviewer's face and shirt (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dashiki

'shirt' is the definition.
(type of African shirt)

'fling odd spots of ink on interviewer's face' is the wordplay.
'fling' becomes 'dash' (both can mean to throw).
'odd spots of' indicates alternate letters (letters in odd-numbered positions).
'on' says to put letters next to each other.
'face' says to take the initial letters.
The first letter of 'interviewers' is 'i'.
The alternating letters of 'ink' are 'ik'.
'dash'+'ik'+'i'='DASHIKI'

'and' acts as a link.

(Another definition for dashiki that I've seen is " Colourful African shirt".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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