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What The Boss does with requests for Born in the USA, for example (5,3,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

calls the tune

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'the usa for example' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'what the boss does with requests for born' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
an anagram of 'the' is 'het' which is within the answer.
'requests' could be 'calls' (call is a kind of request) and 'calls' is present in the answer.
'born' could be 'ne' and 'ne' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

'in' acts as a link.

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(Another definition for calls the tune that I've seen is " 'He who pays the piper ----- --- ----'".)

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