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Excess weight? It's his danger (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

glutton

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'his danger' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

'excess weight?' is the wordplay.
'excess' becomes 'glut' (glut can mean an excess of something).
'weight?' becomes 'ton' (unit of weight).
'glut'+'ton'='GLUTTON'

'it's' is the link.

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(Other definitions for glutton that I've seen before include "Excessive eater; wolverine" , "One eats too much" , "Gourmand" , "Gormandizer" , "Big eater" .)

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