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Desire man with Tarzan's face (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

covet

'desire' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'man with tarzan's face' is the wordplay.
'man' becomes 'cove' (I've seen this in other clues**).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'face' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'tarzans' is 't'.
'cove'+'t'='COVET'

(Other definitions for covet that I've seen before include "Hanker after" , "Long to have (something belonging to another)" , "Wish for something" , "Desire eagerly" , "Crave, long to possess" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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