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Good to get out of rigged ball-game, with the French being easily persuaded (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

malleable

'easily persuaded' is the definition.
(easy to mould or influence)

'good to get out of rigged ball-game with the french' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'the french' could be 'le' ('the' in French) and 'le' is found within the answer.
an anagram of 'ball' is 'labl' which is located in the left over letters.
The remaining letters 'mae' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

'being' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for malleable that I've seen before include "Compliant" , "Being adaptable" , "Able to be hammered" , "Tractable" , "Soft" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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