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English queen hugged by American escort is ok (8)

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I believe the answer is:

adequate

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'is ok' is the definition.
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'english queen hugged by american escort' is the wordplay.
'english queen' becomes 'equ' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'hugged by' is an insertion indicator (I've seen this in other clues).
'american' becomes 'a' (common abbreviation - e.g. in organisation names).
'escort' becomes 'date' (escort can mean a date or partner).
'a'+'date'='adate'
'equ' going into 'adate' is 'ADEQUATE'.

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(Other definitions for adequate that I've seen before include "Sufficient or all right" , "Just about sufficient, acceptable" , "Sufficient, good enough" , "plenty" , "Satisfactory, good enough" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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