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A fellow lives for handsome young man (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

adonis

'handsome young man' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'a fellow lives' is the wordplay.
'fellow' becomes 'don' (I've seen this before).
'lives' becomes 'is' ('be' can be a synonym of 'live').
'a'+'don'+'is'='ADONIS'

'for' is the link.

(Other definitions for adonis that I've seen before include "Type of male beauty" , "Most 8 Greek youth" , "dandy" , "Extremely handsome young man" , "lovely man" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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