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Lived with Sid, with wild deer around (7)

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I believe the answer is:

resided

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'lived' is the definition.
('reside' can be a synonym of 'live')

'with sid with wild deer around' is the wordplay.
'with' is an insertion indicator.
'with wild' becomes 'e' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'deer' becomes 'red deer' (red deer is a kind of deer).
'around' indicates putting letters inside.
'e' put into 'red' is 'reed'.
'sid' put within 'reed' is 'RESIDED'.

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(Other definitions for resided that I've seen before include "stayed" , "Abode" , "Lived" , "Sojourned" , "Dwelt" .)

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