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Browser regularly kidded, boring thinker (4,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

musk deer

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'thinker' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't see how they can define each other.

'browser regularly kidded boring' is the wordplay.
'browser' becomes 'muser' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'regularly' indicates alternate letters (regularly take one letter, leave next etc.).
'boring' is an insertion indicator (to bore something can mean to drill into it).
The alternating letters of 'kidded' are 'kde'.
'muser' going around 'kde' is 'MUSK-DEER'.

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(Another definition for musk deer that I've seen is " Ruminant".)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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