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I appreciate that natural gambolling in hairy creature (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tarantula

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'hairy creature' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'i appreciate that natural gambolling' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'i' could be 'a' and 'a' is found in the answer.
an anagram of 'natural' is 'rantula' which is located in the answer.
A single letter 't' remains which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

'in' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for tarantula that I've seen before include "A big hairy spider" , "small, venomous creature" , "A large hairy tropical spider" , "Breed of spider" , "Creepy-crawly" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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