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Fancying that man wearing felt hose out dogging (3,2,3,5,2)

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I believe the answer is:

hot on the heels of

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'wearing felt hose out dogging' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether this works.

'fancying that man' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'man' could be 'he' (he refers to a man) and 'he' is found within the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Another definition for hot on the heels of that I've seen is " behind, just".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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