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Small arboreal ape of south-east Asia, with long, strong arms (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

gibbon

(Other definitions for gibbon that I've seen before include "Small tree-dwelling ape with long powerful arms" , "Small ape - famous historian" , "an eighteenth-century author" , "author of Decline and Fall, etc" , "Writer" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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