Artist exaggerating could make a cur artistic (12)

I believe the answer is:

caricaturist

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'artist exaggerating' is the definition.
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'make a cur artistic' is the wordplay.
'make' indicates anagramming the letters.
'a'+'cur'+'artistic'='acurartistic'
'acurartistic' is an anagram of 'CARICATURIST'.

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(Other definitions for caricaturist that I've seen before include "One who lampoons" , "Producer of satirical portraits" , "Comic cartoonist" , "Artist producing comic portraits" , "Job sketching exaggerated facial features" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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