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During dodgy pedicure Juliet gets injury (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

prejudice

'injury' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'during dodgy pedicure juliet' is the wordplay.
'during' is an insertion indicator.
'dodgy' indicates an anagram.
'juliet' becomes 'j' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'pedicure' anagrammed gives 'preudice'.
'preudice' going around 'j' is 'PREJUDICE'.

'gets' is the link.

(Other definitions for prejudice that I've seen before include "Bias" , "Intolerance" , "Jane Austen wrote 'Pride and . . . .'" , "Bigotry" , "disadvantage" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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