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Animal: rub it about in lard (5-3)

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I believe the answer is:

fruit-bat

'animal' is the definition.
(fruit bat is a kind of animal)

'rub it about in lard' is the wordplay.
'about' indicates anagramming the letters.
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'lard' becomes 'fat' (lard is a type of fat).
'rub'+'it'='rubit'
'rubit' anagrammed gives 'ruitb'.
'ruitb' placed within 'fat' is 'FRUIT-BAT'.

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