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At his sport, he's lethal! (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

matador

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'at his sport he's lethal' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

'at his sport he's' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'at' is present in the answer.
'he' could be 'ado' and 'ado' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'mr' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for matador that I've seen before include "A bull-fighter.11 Beginning to develop" , "The one who kills the bull" , "he aims to get a bull" , "A Spanish bullfighter" , "He kills the bull in formal fight" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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