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European man losing head when grabbed by pretty girl? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

danish

'european' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'man losing head when grabbed by pretty girl?' is the wordplay.
'losing head' means to remove the first letter.
'when grabbed by' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'pretty girl?' becomes 'dish' (I've seen this in other clues).
'man' with its initial letter taken away is 'an'.
'an' put into 'dish' is 'DANISH'.

(Other definitions for danish that I've seen before include "Flat cake - and party's his! (anag)" , "Language of Denmark" , "Relating to Denmark" , "Had sin (anag)" , "Like Hans Andersen" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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