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Front shaved as far as stomach? One meant to get everything done (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

factotum

'one meant to get everything done' is the definition.

'front shaved as far as stomach?' is the wordplay.
'front' becomes 'face' (face is a kind of front).
'shaved' means to remove the last letter.
'as far as' becomes 'to' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'stomach?' becomes 'tum' ('tum' can be a synonym of 'stomach').
'face' with its last letter taken off is 'fac'.
'fac'+'to'+'tum'='FACTOTUM'

(Other definitions for factotum that I've seen before include "One who does all kinds of work" , "Employee with a variety of jobs" , "Someone employed for a variety of jobs" , "One employed to do various jobs" , "Man Friday" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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