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Tenacious, that man is opening a seedy bar (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

adhesive

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'tenacious' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)

'man is opening a seedy bar' is the wordplay.
'man is' becomes 'hes' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'opening' indicates putting letters inside (some letters open a gap in others).
'seedy bar' becomes 'dive' (as in a dive bar).
'a'+'dive'='adive'
'hes' going into 'adive' is 'ADHESIVE'.

'that' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for adhesive that I've seen before include "It sticks things together" , "Substance that sticks" , "Hide vase (anag)" , "Binding" , "Glue, gum" .)

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