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Moving little ceremony’s ending with celebrity touring garden (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sedentary

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'moving' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'little ceremony's ending with celebrity touring garden' is the wordplay.
'little ceremony' becomes 'star' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'ending with' suggests the final letters.
'touring' indicates putting letters inside (touring can mean going round).
'garden' becomes 'eden' (I've seen this in other clues).
The final letter of 'celebrity' is 'y'.
'star'+'y'='stary'
'stary' enclosing 'eden' is 'SEDENTARY'.

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(Other definitions for sedentary that I've seen before include "Tending to stay seated" , "not exercising one's talents?" , "Tending to spend much time seated" , "Involving little or no energy" , "Sitting much and taking little exercise" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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