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Joey’s father, perhaps, folds anorak around girl with love (8)

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I believe the answer is:

kangaroo

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'joey's' is the definition.

'folds anorak around girl with love' is the wordplay.
'folds' is an anagram indicator (I've seen 'folded' mean this).
'around' indicates putting letters inside.
'girl' becomes 'g' ().
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'love' becomes 'o' (In tennis, 'love' means 'zero').
'anorak' is an anagram of 'kanaro'.
'kanaro' going around 'g' is 'kangaro'.
'kangaro'+'o'='KANGAROO'

'father perhaps' is the link.
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(Other definitions for kangaroo that I've seen before include "Large Australian marsupial" , "Marsupial (two friends of 19)" , "Jumping animal" , "Pouched animal" , "Australian animal -- a no-go ark (anag)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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