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Makes shoes with colour of pavement (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

cobblestone

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'pavement' is the definition.
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'makes shoes with colour' is the wordplay.
'makes shoes with' becomes 'cobbles' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'colour' becomes 'tone' (tone can mean a colour or shade).
'cobbles'+'tone'='COBBLESTONE'

'of' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for cobblestone that I've seen before include "Part of old road surface" , "small part of the way" , "part of the way perhaps" , "Piece of road surfacing material" , "Rounded irregular lump used in paving" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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