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Toes somehow get hard? Not these (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

those

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

'toes somehow get hard?' is the wordplay.
'somehow' is an anagram indicator.
'get' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'hard?' becomes 'h'.
'toes' is an anagram of 'tose'.
'tose' placed around 'h' is 'THOSE'.

(Other definitions for those that I've seen before include "the more far out?" , "The (things) there" , "Nostalgic utterance" , "Plural form of that" , "Ethos (anag.)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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