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Power to raise club fees for round is not genuine (6)

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I believe the answer is:

pseudo

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'not genuine' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'power to raise club fees for round' is the wordplay.
'power' becomes 'p'.
'to raise' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'club fees' becomes 'dues' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'round' means to look at the middle letters.
The central letter of 'for' is 'o'.
'dues' reversed gives 'seud'.
'p'+'seud'+'o'='PSEUDO'

'is' is the link.

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(Other definitions for pseudo that I've seen before include "Insincere person" , "Not genuine" , "Pod use is fake" , "Dose up (anag.); pretentious" , "Pretentious, insincere" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times (Crosaire) and the Irish Times.
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