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Still in hot pants? How distasteful! (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

though

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'still' is the definition.
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'hot pants? how distasteful' is the wordplay.
'pants?' indicates anagramming the letters (UK informal term for 'nonsense' or 'rubbish').
'how distasteful' becomes 'ugh' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'hot' is an anagram of 'tho'.
'tho'+'ugh'='THOUGH'

'in' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for though that I've seen before include "Concessive conjuction" , "However" , "Even if" , "Despite the fact that" , "Nevertheless" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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