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Fabulous bird with little German getting round shopkeeper (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

grocer

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

'fabulous bird with little german getting round' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'bird' could be 'roc' (mythological bird of prey) and 'roc' is found within the answer.
'german' could be 'ger' (abbreviation) and 'ger' is found within the leftover letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for grocer that I've seen before include "Market trader" , "Food merchant" , "Shopkeeper selling food" , "Retailer of foodstuffs" , "Shopkeeper who sells food and household stores" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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