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Speak at length with person living overseas missing queen (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

expatiate

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'speak' is the definition.
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'at length with person living overseas missing queen' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'at' is found in the answer.
'person' could be 'pi' (PI is an example) and 'pi' is found within the remaining letters.
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(Other definitions for expatiate that I've seen before include "Speak or write at length about subject" , "Elaborate" , "In detail, discuss" , "write in great detail" , "Speak in detail (on)" .)

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