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Obsequious? No city chaps can be so! (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sycophantic

'obsequious?' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'no city chaps can be so' is the wordplay.
'can be so' is an anagram indicator.
'no'+'city'+'chaps'='nocitychaps'
'nocitychaps' is an anagram of 'SYCOPHANTIC'.

(Other definitions for sycophantic that I've seen before include "Unctuous" , "tending to fawn" , "Canaries were once so" , "Servile - like a crawler" , "Crawling" .)

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