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One copying standard hill climbing (6)

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I believe the answer is:

parrot

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'one copying' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

'standard hill climbing' is the wordplay.
'standard' becomes 'par' (standard of play in golf).
'hill' becomes 'tor' (tor is a kind of hill).
'climbing' says the letters should be written backwards (in a down clue, letters climb up).
'tor' in reverse letter order is 'rot'.
'par'+'rot'='PARROT'

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(Other definitions for parrot that I've seen before include "Repeat unintelligently" , "Vividly coloured bird" , "Tropical bird noted for mimicking speech" , "Lory" , "Brightly-coloured tropical bird" .)

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