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Carry on Constable - the last movie (4)

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I believe the answer is:

cope

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'carry' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with social activities as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?

'on constable the last movie' is the wordplay.
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'the last' says to take the final letters.
'movie' becomes 'cop' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
The last letter of 'constable' is 'e'.
'e' put after 'cop' is 'COPE'.

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(Other definitions for cope that I've seen before include "Priest's ceremonial cloak" , "Episcopal cloak" , "Deal effectively (with a difficulty)" , "Deal well with difficulties" , "Long cloak for a priest" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times and the Irish Times (Crosaire).
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