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Something amusing for Maggie's hat, a feather fan (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

twitcher

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'amusing for maggie's hat a feather fan' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.

'something' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'something' could be 'er' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'er' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'twitch' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for twitcher that I've seen before include "Bird watcher" , "Rare bird spotter" , "Name for a keen bird-watcher" , "Spasmodic" , "Nervous person" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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