Curmudgeonly type occasionally howled if presented with trickery (3,4)

I believe the answer is:

old fart

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'curmudgeonly type occasionally howled if presented' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'trickery' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'trickery' could be 'art' (I've seen this before) and 'art' is found within the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'with' is the link.

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I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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