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Store outside Santander's affirmative bank (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

deposit

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'bank' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'store outside santander's affirmative' is the wordplay.
'store' becomes 'depot' (depot can mean a store or warehouse).
'outside' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'santander's affirmative' becomes 'si' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'depot' enclosing 'si' is 'DEPOSIT'.

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(Other definitions for deposit that I've seen before include "is one back on the bottle?" , "Sum of money paid into a bank account" , "fur, possibly" , "Part payment in advance to secure goods" , "secure an item" .)

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