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Last of hare sprang and ran off (6)

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I believe the answer is:

eloped

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'ran off' is the definition.
('elope' can be a synonym of 'run off')

'last of hare sprang' is the wordplay.
'last of' says to take the final letters.
'sprang' becomes 'loped' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The last letter of 'hare' is 'e'.
'e'+'loped'='ELOPED'

'and' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for eloped that I've seen before include "Went off" , "Ran away to marry" , "Ran away to get married" .)

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