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Disruptive cheek hampering foremost of luvvies? (6)

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heckle

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'disruptive cheek hampering foremost of luvvies?' is the definition.
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'disruptive cheek hampering foremost of luvvies?' is the wordplay.
'disruptive' indicates an anagram.
'hampering' means one lot of letters goes inside another (hamper can mean to obstruct or restrain).
'foremost of' indicates taking the first letters.
The initial letter of 'luvvies' is 'l'.
'cheek' is an anagram of 'hecke'.
'hecke' enclosing 'l' is 'HECKLE'.

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(Other definitions for heckle that I've seen before include "Interrupt (a public speaker) with taunts" , "rudely interrupt" , "Verbally interrupt performer" , "Jeer abusively" , "Interrupt (speaker) with abuse" .)

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