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Manage to take photograph in thicket (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

coppice

'thicket' is the definition.
(I know that thicket can be written as coppice)

'manage to take photograph' is the wordplay.
'manage' becomes 'cope' (manage can mean to cope or do well).
'to take' is an insertion indicator (inserted letters are taken in).
'photograph' becomes 'pic' (short for picture).
'cope' going around 'pic' is 'COPPICE'.

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for coppice that I've seen before include "Bushy area" , "Cut back trees (for wood)" , "Cut back (a tree) to provide wood" , "Cut back (young trees)" , "Thicket cut back to provide firewood and timber" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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