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Childish supporter wearing fashionable hat (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

infantile

'childish' is the definition.
(I know that childish can be written as infantile)

'supporter wearing fashionable hat' is the wordplay.
'supporter' becomes 'fan' (fan is a kind of supporter).
'wearing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'fashionable' becomes 'in' (in can mean fashionable or trendy).
'hat' becomes 'tile' (old-fashioned term for a hat).
'in'+'tile'='intile'
'fan' put inside 'intile' is 'INFANTILE'.

(Other definitions for infantile that I've seen before include "for kids" , "Inflate in childish way" , "Babyish" , "in early stage of development" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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