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Dove egg and whisky for gentleman (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fellow

'for gentleman' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'dove egg and whisky' is the wordplay.
'dove' becomes 'fell' (I've seen this in another clue).
'egg' becomes 'o' (an 'o' resembles an egg).
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'whisky' becomes 'W' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'fell'+'o'+'w'='FELLOW'

(Other definitions for fellow that I've seen before include "Kind of associate, may be a traveller with communism" , "Bloke; senior member of college" , "Colleague" , "Companion or associate" , "The other of a pair, or a college member" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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