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Stick around, and ultimately you'll achieve celebrity (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

notable

'celebrity' is the definition.
(notable is a kind of celebrity)

'stick around and ultimately you'll achieve' is the wordplay.
'stick' becomes 'baton' (I've seen this before).
'around' says the letters should be written backwards.
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'ultimately' says to take the final letters.
The final letters of 'youll achieve' are 'le'.
'baton' in reverse letter order is 'notab'.
'notab'+'le'='NOTABLE'

(Other definitions for notable that I've seen before include "Remarkable, worthy of comment" , "Star" , "Worthy of remark" , "celebrity" , "Eminent" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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