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Shabby chap, extremely grumpy (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

mangy

'shabby' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'chap extremely grumpy' is the wordplay.
'chap' becomes 'man' (I've seen this before**).
'extremely' means to remove the middle letters.
'grumpy' with its centre removed is 'gy'.
'man'+'gy'='MANGY'

(Other definitions for mangy that I've seen before include "Having a skin disease" , "Scabby" , "Shabby - moth-eaten" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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