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Current affecting only part of body (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

topical

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'current' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)

'affecting only part of body' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'part' could be 'top' (top is a kind of part) and 'top' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for topical that I've seen before include "Applied externally" , "Dealing with current affairs" , "Of interest at the present time" , "currently newsworthy" , "Up to date" .)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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