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Massage to rear end of pigeon fancier (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ornater

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'fancier' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are comparative adjectives. Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'massage to rear end of pigeon' is the wordplay.
'massage' indicates anagramming the letters.
'end of' suggests the final letters.
The last letter of 'pigeon' is 'n'.
'to'+'rear'+'n'='torearn'
'torearn' with letters rearranged gives 'ORNATER'.

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(Another definition for ornater that I've seen is " More decorated".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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