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Sly, going round the market astutely (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

smartly

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'astutely' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adverbs. Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'sly going round the market' is the wordplay.
'going round' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters go around others).
'the market' becomes 'mart' ('mart' can be a synonym of 'market').
'sly' going around 'mart' is 'SMARTLY'.

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(Other definitions for smartly that I've seen before include "at a brisk pace" , "How the chic are turned out" , "wasting no time" , "pronto" .)

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