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Disadvantage: partial hitch, and I capitulate (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

handicap

'disadvantage' is the definition.
(I know that disadvantage is the is a more specific form of the action of handicap.)

'partial hitch and i capitulate' is the wordplay.
'partial' says the answer is hidden in the clue.
'HANDICAP' is hidden in the letters of 'hitch and i capitulate'.

(Other definitions for handicap that I've seen before include "race" , "Physical or mental disability, sometimes imposed" , "hamper" , "Disadvantage imposed on competitor to equalise chances" , "Advantage given to equalise chances of winning" .)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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