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Skip introduction to funny little man, a foreign character (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

omicron

'a foreign character' is the definition.
(Greek letter)

'skip introduction to funny little man' is the wordplay.
'skip introduction to' means to remove the first letter.
'funny' becomes 'comic' (synonyms).
'little man' becomes 'Ron' (short for Ronald).
'comic' with its first letter taken away is 'omic'.
'omic'+'ron'='OMICRON'

(Other definitions for omicron that I've seen before include "15th letter of the Greek alphabet" , "Round character" , "letter from Athens" , "Greek character" , "character from Athens" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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