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Farm animal rising every morning (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

llama

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'farm animal' is the definition.
'llama' can be an answer for 'animal' (I've seen this before). I am unsure of the 'farm' bit.

'rising every morning' is the wordplay.
'rising' says the letters should be written backwards (going up in a down clue).
'every' becomes 'all' (similar in meaning).
'morning' becomes 'ma' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'all' in reverse letter order is 'lla'.
'lla'+'ma'='LLAMA'

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(Other definitions for llama that I've seen before include "South American beast of burden" , "South American animal of the camel family" , "Peruvian camel" , "woolly customer" , "Andean pack animal" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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