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Cut of meat for league leaders? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

topside

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'cut' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'meat for league leaders?' is the wordplay.
'meat' becomes 'side' (side is a kind of meat).
'for' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (I've seen this in other clues).
'league leaders?' becomes 'top' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'side' put after 'top' is 'TOPSIDE'.

'of' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for topside that I've seen before include "Cut of beef from thigh" , "Outer cut of beef" , "Dish" , "Towards ship's upper decks; part of cut of beef" , "a cut above the others?" .)

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