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She's mean, keeping hold of a fag-end (5)

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I believe the answer is:

megan

'she's' is the definition.

'mean keeping hold of a fag-end' is the wordplay.
'keeping hold of' indicates putting letters inside.
'end' suggests the final letters.
The last letter of 'fag' is 'g'.
'mean' placed around 'g' is 'MEGAN'.

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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