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Bacon's getting increasingly hot-headed (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

rasher

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'bacon's' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'getting increasingly hot-headed' is the wordplay.
'getting' says to put letters next to each other.
'increasingly' becomes 'er' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'hot-headed' becomes 'rash' (I've seen this before).
'er' after 'rash' is 'RASHER'.

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(Other definitions for rasher that I've seen before include "Thin slice of bacon" , "bit of a pig" , "Less circumspect" , "More foolhardy than a slice of bacon" , "pig, to an extent" .)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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