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Cheek, being seen on pot in paper? It's disrespectful (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

flippant

'disrespectful' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'cheek being seen on pot in paper?' is the wordplay.
'cheek' becomes 'lip' (both can mean insolence or rudeness).
'being seen on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'pot' becomes 'pan' (I've seen this before**).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'paper?' becomes 'ft'.
'lip'+'pan'='lippan'
'lippan' going into 'ft' is 'FLIPPANT'.

'it's' is the link.

(Other definitions for flippant that I've seen before include "showing disrespectful attitude" , "anything but serious" , "Impudent" , "light" , "Cheeky" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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