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Game girl trails quiet chap round seaside resort (5-9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

shove-halfpenny

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'game' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'girl trails quiet chap round seaside resort' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'girl' could be 'pen' and 'pen' is found within the answer.
'quiet' could be 'sh' (both can be said to tell someone to be quiet) and 'sh' is found within the answer.
'chap' could be 'hal' and 'hal' is found within the answer.
'round' could be 'o' (o is a circular letter) and 'o' is found within the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Another definition for shove-halfpenny that I've seen is " Pub game".)

I've seen this clue in The Sunday Times.
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