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Help pair out with adhesive for operation (3,11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hip replacement

'operation' is the definition.
(type of surgical operation)

'help pair out with adhesive' is the wordplay.
'out' indicates an anagram (out can mean wrong or inaccurate).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'adhesive' becomes 'cement' (cement is a kind of adhesive).
'help'+'pair'='helppair'
'helppair' is an anagram of 'hiprepla'.
'hiprepla'+'cement'='HIP-REPLACEMENT'

'for' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for hip replacement that I've seen before include "Inserted joint" , "Joint operation" .)

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