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Deflect half of eggs rolling beneath penguin? (7)

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I believe the answer is:

diverge

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'deflect' is the definition.
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'half of eggs rolling beneath penguin?' is the wordplay.
'half of' suggests halving the letters.
'rolling' says the letters should be written backwards.
'beneath' means one lot of letters go next to another (in a down clue, some letters go below others).
'penguin?' becomes 'diver' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'eggs' cut in half is 'eg'.
'eg' in reverse letter order is 'ge'.
'ge' after 'diver' is 'DIVERGE'.

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(Other definitions for diverge that I've seen before include "Move away from" , "stray from course" , "conflict" , "Turn aside" , "Bifurcate" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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