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Animated film and book having curtailed range (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bambi

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'animated film' is the definition.
'bambi' can be an answer for 'film' (Bambi is a Disney film). I am not sure about the 'animated' bit.

'book having curtailed range' is the wordplay.
'book' becomes 'b' (abbreviation for book).
'having' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'curtailed range' becomes 'ambi' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'b'+'ambi'='BAMBI'

'and' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for bambi that I've seen before include "7's fawn" , "Walt Disney's young fawn" , "cartoon film" , "Animated deer - a Tony Blair nickname" , "Disney's baby deer" .)

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