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At the Nag's Head, he's the master (3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

man

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'the master' is the definition.
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'at the nag's head he's' is the wordplay.
'at' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'head' suggests taking the first letters.
'he' becomes 'ma' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The first letter of 'nags' is 'n'.
'n' put after 'ma' is 'MAN'.

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(Other definitions for man that I've seen before include "just one" , "Fellow" , "Male person" , "Staff the island" , "race" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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