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A derelict pub, exhort to go into (6)

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I believe the answer is:

beggar

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'a derelict' is the definition.
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'pub exhort to go into' is the wordplay.
'pub' becomes 'bar' (both are drinking establishments).
'exhort' becomes 'egg' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to go into' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters go into others).
'bar' going around 'egg' is 'BEGGAR'.

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(Other definitions for beggar that I've seen before include "Pauper who lives by soliciting" , "vagrant" , "Pauper or supplicant" , "Mendicant or scrounger" , "bum" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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