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Grand party-thrower has a bit of skinny people's leftovers? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ghosts

'people's leftovers?' is the definition.
(ghosts are people's spirits)

'grand party-thrower has a bit of skinny' is the wordplay.
'grand' becomes 'g' (G is short for grand as in a thousand).
'party thrower' becomes 'host' (someone hosting a party).
'has' says to put letters next to each other.
'a bit of' says to take the initial letters.
The first letter of 'skinny' is 's'.
'g'+'host'+'s'='GHOSTS'

(Other definitions for ghosts that I've seen before include "Writes for another; Ibsen play" , "Spirits or apparitions" , "Apparitions of a dead people" , "Spooks, spectres" , "Spectres, wraiths" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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