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Laidback about measure on prohibition (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

denial

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'prohibition' is the definition.
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'laidback about measure' is the wordplay.
'laidback' becomes 'dial' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'measure' becomes 'en' (en is a kind of measure).
'dial' placed around 'en' is 'DENIAL'.

'on' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for denial that I've seen before include "Renunciation" , "Repudiation" , "Refusal to admit painful truths" , "Refusal to acknowledge" , "Daniel (anag.)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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