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Dahlia arranged around outskirts of Hyderabad in pretentious manner (8)

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I believe the answer is:

lahdidah

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'pretentious manner' is the definition.
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'dahlia arranged around outskirts of hyderabad' is the wordplay.
'arranged' indicates an anagram.
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'outskirts of' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters).
'hyderabad' with its centre taken out is 'hd'.
'dahlia' is an anagram of 'laidah'.
'laidah' going around 'hd' is 'LAHDIDAH'.

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(Other definitions for lahdidah that I've seen before include "Ostentatious" , "posh?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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