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Looking like Tom (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

peeping

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'looking' is the definition.
(peeping is a kind of looking)

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(Other definitions for peeping that I've seen before include ". . . . . . . Tom, furtive observer" , "Looking furtively" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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