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Pay no attention to topless foreign eccentric (or topless foreign man) (6)

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I believe the answer is:

ignore

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'pay no attention' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'topless foreign eccentric or topless foreign man' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'or' is found in the answer.
'man' could be 'n' (knight, a man in chess) and 'n' is found in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'to' is the link.

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(Other definitions for ignore that I've seen before include "Deliberately take no notice" , "Pay no attention to, disdain" , "Brush off" , "Fail to notice (6)" , "Region (anag)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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