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Round bees, awfully overweight (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

obese

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

'round bees awfully' is the wordplay.
'round' becomes 'o' (round can mean a round object).
'awfully' indicates an anagram.
'bees' with letters rearranged gives 'bese'.
'o'+'bese'='OBESE'

(Other definitions for obese that I've seen before include "Extremely overweight" , "likely to tip the balance?" , "Dangerously corpulent" , "Enormously portly" , "More than podgy" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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