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In France, Everyman – seeing beer with head regularly – laughed derisively (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

jeered

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'laughed derisively' is the definition.

'in france everyman seeing beer with head regularly' is the wordplay.
'in france everyman' becomes 'Je' (French for I where Everyman is the setter).
'seeing beer with' becomes 'er' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'regularly' indicates alternate letters (regularly take one letter, leave next etc.).
The alternating letters of 'head' are 'ed'.
'je'+'er'+'ed'='JEERED'

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(Other definitions for jeered that I've seen before include "Ridiculed, scorned" , "Barracked" , "Mocked, derided" , "Did deride" , "Laughed with derision" .)

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