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He's the boss, dear fellow (3,3)

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I believe the answer is:

old man

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'fellow' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'he's the boss dear' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'he' could be 'man' (I've seen this in another clue) and 'man' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'old' 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).

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(Other definitions for old man that I've seen before include "Aged male as informal father" , "Husband (inf)" , "Master?" , "Senior citizen" , "Boyfriend" .)

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