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Legendary creature, still first in index (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

yeti

'legendary creature' is the definition.
(yeti is a kind of legendary creature)

'still first in index' is the wordplay.
'still' becomes 'yet' ('yet' can be a synonym of 'still').
'first in' says to take the initial letters.
The first letter of 'index' is 'i'.
'yet'+'i'='YETI'

(Other definitions for yeti that I've seen before include "Mythical Tibetan beast" , "mythical creature" , "Hairy recluse" , "The Abominable Snowman in Tibetan" , "Tibetan creature" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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