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Pursued by Attila and Edward (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hunted

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'pursued' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with motion as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'attila and edward' is the wordplay.
'attila' becomes 'hun' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'edward' becomes 'ted'.
'hun'+'ted'='HUNTED'

'by' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for hunted that I've seen before include "Pursued or chased relentlessy" , "Pursued game" , "Pursued for food or sport" .)

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