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Hunt for words in grid? Perhaps reading in, start to see every one (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

search

'hunt for words in grid?' is the definition.
(as in a wordsearch)

'reading in start to see every one' is the wordplay.
'reading' becomes 'r' (one of the traditional three R's of education).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'start to' indicates taking the first letters.
'every one' becomes 'each' (I've seen this in other clues).
The first letter of 'see' is 's'.
's'+'each'='seach'
'r' placed into 'seach' is 'SEARCH'.

'perhaps' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for search that I've seen before include "Look through - arches (anag)" , "Probe" , "Go through" , "Try to find something by looking" , "Frisk" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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