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Silly fellow to singe pork pie (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

charlie

'silly fellow' is the definition.
(charlie can mean a foolish person)

'singe pork pie' is the wordplay.
'singe' becomes 'char' (I've seen this before).
'pork pie' becomes 'lie' ('pork pie' is Cockney rhyming slang for a lie).
'char'+'lie'='CHARLIE'

'to' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for charlie that I've seen before include "dope > (cocaine)" , "Fool - drug (slang)" , "A Bonnie Scottish Prince, or the familiar Mr McCreevy" , "-- Chaplin" , "Idiot - cocaine" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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