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God of sex raised cane (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

titan

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'god' is the definition.
(Titan is an example)

'sex raised cane' is the wordplay.
'sex' becomes 'it' (a common euphemism).
'raised' is a reversal indicator (going up in a down clue).
'cane' becomes 'tan' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'it' back-to-front is 'ti'.
'ti'+'tan'='TITAN'

'of' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for titan that I've seen before include "Huge character" , "Jupiter's largest satellite" , "One of the first pantheon of Greek deities" , "Prometheus, for instance" , "Old Greek god or very strong person" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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