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See tailless canine hero, one revered as god (8)

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selassie

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'hero one revered as god' is the definition.
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'see tailless canine' is the wordplay.
'tailless' means to remove the last letter (the tail of the word is removed).
'canine' becomes 'lassie' (I've seen this before).
'see' with its final letter taken off is 'se'.
'se'+'lassie'='SELASSIE'

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