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Maestro cheekily clasping foot (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

trochee

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'foot' is the definition.
(trochee is a kind of foot)

'maestro cheekily clasping' is the wordplay.
'TROCHEE' is hidden in amongst the letters.
However, I am not sure how the hidden word is indicated.

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(Other definitions for trochee that I've seen before include "To cheer about this metrical unit" , "Long-short foot (metre)" , "Foot of a stressed and an unstressed syllable" , "service, for example" , "poetic feature" .)

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