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On a chair, an evil spirit (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

satan

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'an evil spirit' is the definition.
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'on a chair' is the wordplay.
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'a' becomes 'an'.
'chair' becomes 'sat' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'an' put after 'sat' is 'SATAN'.

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(Other definitions for satan that I've seen before include "Old Nick, Lucifer or Beelzebub" , "Fallen archangel" , "Apollyon" , "The devil, Beelzebub" , "Prince of Darkness" .)

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