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Local shoots the breeze with comedians behind clip of China (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

chinwags

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'local shoots the breeze' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'comedians behind clip of china' is the wordplay.
'comedians' becomes 'wags' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'behind' says to put letters next to each other.
'clip of' means to remove the last letter (clip can mean a shortening of something).
'china' with its last letter removed is 'chin'.
'wags' after 'chin' is 'CHINWAGS'.

'with' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for chinwags that I've seen before include "Chats" , "Talks" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times (Crosaire) and The Irish Times.
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