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Joke at the end unsavoury and feeble (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

puny

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

'joke at the end unsavoury' is the wordplay.
'joke' becomes 'pun' (punning is a kind of joking).
'at the end' says to take the final letters.
The last letter of 'unsavoury' is 'y'.
'pun'+'y'='PUNY'

'and' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for puny that I've seen before include "Small and feeble" , "Weak - unimportant" , "in need of development" , "Frail and weedy" , "Slight" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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