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Producer of Bond cutting introduction: it's rotten (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

poxy

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

'producer of bond cutting introduction' is the wordplay.
'producer of bond' becomes 'epoxy' (epoxy is a resin that forms a bond).
'cutting introduction' means to remove the first letter.
'epoxy' with its initial letter taken off is 'POXY'.

'it's' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for poxy that I've seen before include "Inferior" , "Rotten" , "drug extracted from synthetic resin" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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