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Fashionable school for cricket perhaps (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

insect

'for cricket perhaps' is the definition.
(cricket is an example)

'fashionable school' is the wordplay.
'fashionable' becomes 'in' (in can mean fashionable or trendy).
'school' becomes 'sect' (I've seen this in other clues).
'in'+'sect'='INSECT'

(Other definitions for insect that I've seen before include "Ladybird, for example" , "Little creature" , "Eg, beetle or bee" , "Small animal with six legs" , "Bug" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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