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Mash up hare's last bit of appendix for prophet (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

haruspex

'for prophet' is the definition.
(type of prophet in ancient Rome)

'mash up hare's last bit of appendix' is the wordplay.
'mash' indicates an anagram (I've seen this in other clues).
'last bit of' says to take the final letters.
The last letter of 'appendix' is 'x'.
'up'+'hares'='uphares'
'uphares' anagrammed gives 'haruspe'.
'haruspe'+'x'='HARUSPEX'

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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