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Honestly cunning to hide class (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

frankly

'honestly' is the definition.
(I know that honestly can be written as frankly)

'cunning to hide class' is the wordplay.
'cunning' becomes 'fly' (fly can mean skilful or sharp).
'to hide' is an insertion indicator.
'class' becomes 'rank' (I have seen 'Social class ' mean 'rank' so perhaps 'class' could also mean 'rank').
'fly' enclosing 'rank' is 'FRANKLY'.

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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