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A wild dog doing badly (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dingo

'a wild dog' is the definition.
(I know that dingo is a type of wild dog)

'doing badly' is the wordplay.
'badly' is an anagram indicator (letters in the wrong order).
'doing' with letters rearranged gives 'DINGO'.

(Other definitions for dingo that I've seen before include "One running wild in Australia" , "Wild thing" , "Kipling's "Yellow-Dog"" , "Want a dog" , "dog running wild" .)

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