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He joins Norm at the historic Duke's place (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

andy

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'he' is the definition.

'norm at the historic duke's place' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'duke' could be 'd' (abbreviation) and 'd' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'any' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'joins' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for andy that I've seen before include "strip cartoon character" , "- Pandy, children's TV series" , "-- Capp, cartoon layabout" , "Man" , "Chap" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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