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Promiscuous dormice breed disregarding cold – it's exaggerated (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

embroidered

'exaggerated' is the definition.
(embroidering is a kind of exaggerating)

'promiscuous dormice breed disregarding cold' is the wordplay.
'promiscuous' is an anagram indicator (promiscuous can mean random or out of order).
'disregarding' suggests deleting specific letters.
'cold' becomes 'C' (eg on taps).
'dormice'+'breed'='dormicebreed'
'dormicebreed' with 'c' taken away is 'dormiebreed'.
'dormiebreed' is an anagram of 'EMBROIDERED'.

'it's' is the link.

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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