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As a consequence, accompanying oddly slow pain in the neck (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

soandso

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'pain in the neck' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'as a consequence accompanying oddly slow' is the wordplay.
'as a consequence' becomes 'andso' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'accompanying' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'oddly' means one should take alternating letters (letters in the odd-numbered positions are used).
The alternate letters of 'slow' are 'so'.
'andso' put after 'so' is 'SOANDSO'.

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(Another definition for soandso that I've seen is " Unpleasant person - whose name has been forgotten!".)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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