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A derelict pub, exhort to go into (6)

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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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