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Owner's organised report about dog permit oddly ignored (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

proprietor

'owner's' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'organised report about dog permit oddly ignored' is the wordplay.
'organised' indicates anagramming the letters.
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'oddly ignored' means one should take alternating letters (letters in odd-numbered positions are removed).
'dog'+'permit'='dogpermit'
The alternate letters of 'dogpermit' are 'opri'.
'report' with letters rearranged gives 'pretor'.
'pretor' placed around 'opri' is 'PROPRIETOR'.

(Other definitions for proprietor that I've seen before include "Landlord" , "Business owner" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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