Quaint manoeuvres around popular jousting post (8)

I believe the answer is:

quintain

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'jousting post' is the definition.
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'quaint manoeuvres around popular' is the wordplay.
'manoeuvres' indicates an anagram (letters manoeuvred in a new way).
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'popular' becomes 'in' ('in' can mean trendy).
'quaint' is an anagram of 'qutain'.
'qutain' placed around 'in' is 'QUINTAIN'.

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(Another definition for quintain that I've seen is " medieval exercise".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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