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Hog swimming in some pool (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

monopolise

'hog' is the definition.
('hog'->'monopolize' is in my internal thesaurus and 'ize'->'ise')

'swimming in some pool' is the wordplay.
'swimming' indicates an anagram (letters swim around into a new order).
'in'+'some'+'pool'='insomepool'
'insomepool' anagrammed gives 'MONOPOLISE'.

(Other definitions for monopolise that I've seen before include "Demand full attention" , "Control exclusively" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times and The Sunday Times.
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