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Stroke stomach and top of leg (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

crawl

'stroke' is the definition.
(crawl is a kind of stroke)

'stomach and top of leg' is the wordplay.
'stomach' becomes 'craw' (craw is a kind of stomach).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'top of' says to take the initial letters.
The first letter of 'leg' is 'l'.
'craw'+'l'='CRAWL'

(Other definitions for crawl that I've seen before include "Creep or move slowly" , "but very slowly on land" , "Proceed on hands and knees" , "progress slowly" , "Unusually slow rate of movement" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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