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Mad tea party host is a milliner (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hatter

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'a milliner' is the definition.
('hatter' can be a synonym of 'milliner')

'mad tea party host' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'tea' could be 't' (I've seen this in other clues) and 't' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'hater' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'is' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for hatter that I've seen before include "Threat (anag)" , "Tea party participant (Alice)" , "supplying pork pies?" , "Topping chap" , "Tea-party holder" .)

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