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Butcher kept a sow for soft underbelly (4,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

weak spot

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

'butcher kept a sow' is the wordplay.
'butcher' indicates an anagram.
'kept'+'a'+'sow'='keptasow'
'keptasow' anagrammed gives 'WEAK SPOT'.

'for' is the link.

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(Other definitions for weak spot that I've seen before include "'Your area of vulnerability (4,4)'" , "Area in which one is not knowledgeable" , "Area of deficient knowledge" , "Achilles heel?" , "Gap in knowledge" .)

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