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Pretty tiny wings for canary (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tweety

'canary' is the definition.
(canary in Looney Tunes cartoons)

'pretty tiny wings' is the wordplay.
'pretty' becomes 'twee' (twee can mean cute or pretty).
'wings' means to remove the middle letters (the wings or edge letters of the word are used).
'tiny' with its centre removed is 'ty'.
'twee'+'ty'='TWEETY'

'for' is the link.

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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