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Are in charge and get silver hair all round! (6)

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I believe the answer is:

manage

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'are in charge' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with social activities as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?

'silver hair all round' is the wordplay.
'silver' becomes 'Ag' (Ag is the chemical symbol for silver).
'hair' becomes 'mane' (mane is a kind of hair).
'all round' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'ag' inserted into 'mane' is 'MANAGE'.

'and get' is the link.

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(Other definitions for manage that I've seen before include "Be in overall control of" , "Handle and control the business" , "Exercise control - don't fail" , "Handle, run" , "Take control" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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