Love this rodent, strangely (4)

I believe the answer is:

vole

(Other definitions for vole that I've seen before include "win all the tricks" , "Small mouse-like rodent" , "River-bank rodent" , "Fieldmouse" , "creature" .)

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

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