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Regarding work in a slanting manner (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

astoop

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'a slanting manner' is the definition.
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'regarding work' is the wordplay.
'regarding' becomes 'as to' (as to that topic...).
'work' becomes 'op' (short for opus).
'asto'+'op'='ASTOOP'

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