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Prohibit Oswald going in for whalebone? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

baleen

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'whalebone?' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'prohibit oswald going in' is the wordplay.
'prohibit' becomes 'ban' (banning is a kind of prohibiting).
'oswald going' becomes 'lee' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'ban' enclosing 'lee' is 'BALEEN'.

'for' is the link.

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(Another definition for baleen that I've seen is " Enable (anag) - whalebone".)

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