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Lovely unruly fight: very good boxing contest in the end (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

scrumptious

'lovely' is the definition.
(scrumptious can mean lovely or attractive)

'unruly fight very good boxing contest in the end' is the wordplay.
'unruly fight' becomes 'scrum' (scrum can mean a crowd or fight).
'very good' becomes 'pious' (pious can mean very religious).
'boxing' means one lot of letters goes inside another ('box' can mean contain, as in to put in a box).
'in the end' suggests the final letters.
The last letter of 'contest' is 't'.
'pious' going around 't' is 'ptious'.
'scrum'+'ptious'='SCRUMPTIOUS'

(Other definitions for scrumptious that I've seen before include "Toothsome" , "Yummy" , "Extremely appetising (colloq.)" , "very good" , "Extremely delicious" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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