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Look at king hugging drunken dean (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

gander

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

'king hugging drunken dean' is the wordplay.
'king' becomes 'gr' (**).
'hugging' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'drunken' indicates anagramming the letters.
'dean' is an anagram of 'ande'.
'gr' going around 'ande' is 'GANDER'.

(Other definitions for gander that I've seen before include "Glimpse" , "Male bird - look" , "Butchers - goose" , "Male goose; look (colloq.)" , "Male goose - quick look" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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