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Male hanging round mine for festival (5,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

mardi gras

'festival' is the definition.
(Mardi Gras is an example)

'male hanging round mine' is the wordplay.
'male' becomes 'm' (common abbreviation).
'hanging' becomes 'arras' (arras is a kind of hanging).
'round' indicates putting letters inside.
'mine' becomes 'dig' (I've seen this before).
'arras' going around 'dig' is 'ardigras'.
'm'+'ardigras'='MARDI GRAS'

'for' is the link.

(Other definitions for mardi gras that I've seen before include "Carnival (day)" , "Shrove Tuesday celebration" , "Time for carnival" , "Shrove Tuesday festival" , "Shrove Tuesday carnival" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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