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I muscle out crook, being thorough (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

meticulous

'thorough' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'i muscle out crook' is the wordplay.
'crook' indicates an anagram (a crooked or broken form of the letters).
'i'+'muscle'+'out'='imuscleout'
'imuscleout' is an anagram of 'METICULOUS'.

'being' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for meticulous that I've seen before include "of great precision" , "Extremely careful" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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