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Cup presented wrongly to a lazy person (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

potato

'lazy person' is the definition.

'cup presented wrongly to a' is the wordplay.
'cup presented' becomes 'pot'.
'wrongly' indicates anagramming the letters (I've seen this in other clues).
'to'+'a'='toa'
'toa' anagrammed gives 'ato'.
'pot'+'ato'='POTATO'

(Other definitions for potato that I've seen before include "Murphy (informal)" , "Would be difficult to deal with if hot" , "Tuber, popular in Ireland" , "The vegetable is too apt, oddly" , "Plant tuber eaten as a vegetable" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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