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Half-dozen with nasty allusion that is wicked (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

villainous

'is wicked' is the definition.
('villainous' can be similar in meaning to 'wicked')

'half-dozen with nasty allusion' is the wordplay.
'half dozen' becomes 'vi' ('vi' can be a synonym of 'half dozen').
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'nasty' indicates anagramming the letters.
'allusion' is an anagram of 'llainous'.
'vi'+'llainous'='VILLAINOUS'

'that' is the link.

(Other definitions for villainous that I've seen before include "very unpleasant" , "criminal" , "really bad" , "dramatically bad" , "Nasty" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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