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Pick up little devil and travel (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

improve

'pick up' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'little devil and travel' is the wordplay.
'little devil' becomes 'imp' (an imp is a little demon).
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'travel' becomes 'rove' (roving is a kind of travelling).
'imp'+'rove'='IMPROVE'

(Other definitions for improve that I've seen before include "Ameliorate" , "Make better in quality" , "Train" , "Get or make better" , "Polish" .)

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