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National Insurance in tax year is pretension (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

vanity

(Other definitions for vanity that I've seen before include "William Makepeace Thackeray wrote '. . . . . . Fair'" , "Book by Thackeray" , "Conceit about one's appearance" , "Excessive pride in one's appearance" , "Capacity for conceit" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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