Friendly glance clearing the old (7)

I believe the answer is:

gladeye

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'friendly glance' is the definition.
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'clearing the old' is the wordplay.
'clearing' becomes 'glade' (synonyms).
'the old' becomes 'ye' (resembles a historical spelling of 'the').
'glade'+'ye'='GLADEYE'

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