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Isn't fat novel entertaining like Don Quixote? (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fantasist

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'don quixote?' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'isn't fat novel entertaining like' is the wordplay.
'novel' indicates an anagram (letters in a new or novel order).
'entertaining' means one lot of letters goes inside another (inviting in, as for dinner).
'like' becomes 'as'.
'isnt'+'fat'='isntfat'
'isntfat' is an anagram of 'fantist'.
'fantist' going around 'as' is 'FANTASIST'.

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(Other definitions for fantasist that I've seen before include "Dreamer" , "Creator of very imaginative fiction" , "Walter Mitty type?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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