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Lasted longer than guy getting exposed all round (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

outstayed

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'lasted longer than' is the definition.

'guy getting exposed all round' is the wordplay.
'guy getting' becomes 'stay' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'exposed' becomes 'outed' (outing is a kind of exposing).
'all round' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'stay' going inside 'outed' is 'OUTSTAYED'.

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