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Presentation intended to reach Hancock shortly? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

format

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

'intended to reach hancock shortly?' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'to' could be 'for' and 'for' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'mat' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for format that I've seen before include "Way of presentation" , "The shape and size, of a book say" , "Prepare (a disk) for data" , "Shape and style as of book" , "Arrangement (data)" .)

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