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Greco-Roman creature initially coiled in winding road (5)

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I believe the answer is:

draco

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'greco-roman creature' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both animals as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'initially coiled in winding road' is the wordplay.
'initially' suggests taking the first letters.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'winding' indicates anagramming the letters.
The initial letter of 'coiled' is 'c'.
'road' anagrammed gives 'drao'.
'c' put into 'drao' is 'DRACO'.

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(Other definitions for draco that I've seen before include "group of stars" , "death-dealing lawman" , "Athenian lawmaker" , "seen among the stars" , "Harsh legislator" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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