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Do wrong in giving somebody a hand (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

misdeal

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'do wrong' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'giving somebody a hand' is the wordplay.
'giving somebody' becomes 'mis' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a hand' becomes 'deal' ('deal' can be a synonym of 'hand').
'mis'+'deal'='MISDEAL'

'in' is the link.

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(Other definitions for misdeal that I've seen before include "Give out the cards wrongly" , "Faulty distribution" , "Right hand that isn't" , "Give out cards incorrectly" , "Faulty issue of cards" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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