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Send up Fife hooligan princess royal dominated (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ridden

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'dominated' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'send up fife hooligan princess royal' is the wordplay.
'send up' is a reversal indicator.
'fife hooligan' becomes 'ned' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'princess' becomes 'di' (Princess Diana).
'royal' becomes 'r' (abbreviation).
'ned'+'di'+'r'='neddir'
'neddir' in reverse letter order is 'RIDDEN'.

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(Other definitions for ridden that I've seen before include "Oppressed" , "(Of a horse) sat upon" , "(Of horse) mounted" , "What horses often are" , "Used for transport" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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