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Move less than a yard with Francisco (4)

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I believe the answer is:

goya

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'francisco' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this definition defines the answer.

'move less than a yard with' is the wordplay.
'move' becomes 'go' (going is a kind of moving).
'less than' means to remove the last letter (not the full word).
'a yard' becomes 'yd'.
'with' becomes 'a' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'yd' with its last letter taken away is 'y'.
'go'+'y'+'a'='GOYA'

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(Other definitions for goya that I've seen before include "European painter" , "Great Spanish painter who depicted horrors of war" , "Spanish painter, d. 1828" , "Span. C18 court painter" , "Old master" .)

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