Go out of one's way to look after knotted hair on calves (6,4,2)

I believe the answer is:

lavish care on

'go out of one's way to look after' is the definition.

'knotted hair on calves' is the wordplay.
'knotted' indicates an anagram.
'hair'+'on'+'calves'='haironcalves'
'haironcalves' is an anagram of 'LAVISH CARE ON'.

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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