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Dishonour surrounding bishop left in lurch (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

shamble

'lurch' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'dishonour surrounding bishop left' is the wordplay.
'dishonour' becomes 'shame' (synonyms).
'surrounding' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'bishop' becomes 'B' (chess abbreviation).
'left' becomes 'l' (common abbreviation).
'b'+'l'='bl'
'shame' enclosing 'bl' is 'SHAMBLE'.

'in' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for shamble that I've seen before include "Walk lumberingly" , "Shuffle along awkwardly" , "Move shufflingly" , "Move awkwardly" , "Walk shufflingly" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun and The Times.
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