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After comic opera, villager embraces hot bird (6,8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

mikado pheasant

'bird' is the definition.

'after comic opera villager embraces hot' is the wordplay.
'after' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'comic opera' becomes 'mikado' (The Mikado is a Gilbert and Sullivan opera).
'villager' becomes 'peasant'.
'embraces' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'hot' becomes 'h'.
'peasant' placed around 'h' is 'pheasant'.
'mikado'+'pheasant' is 'MIKADO PHEASANT'.

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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