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Deceptively fed full of beef? (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

foxed

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'deceptively fed full of beef?' is the definition.
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'fed full of beef?' is the wordplay.
'full of' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'beef?' becomes 'ox'.
'fed' going around 'ox' is 'FOXED'.

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(Other definitions for foxed that I've seen before include "Baffled" , "a bit off-colour" , "Deceived in vulpine manner" .)

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