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Quintessentially slow creature (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

snail

(Other definitions for snail that I've seen before include "Slow-moving creature" , "Proverbially slow moving mollusc" , "go very slowly" , "dawdler" , "Mollusc with coiled shell" .)

I've seen this clue in The Wall Street Journal.
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