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Stuck in olden days with English definitely at the forefront! (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pasted

'stuck in' is the definition.

'olden days with english definitely at the forefront' is the wordplay.
'olden days' becomes 'past'.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'at the forefront' indicates taking the first letters.
The initial letters of 'english definitely' is 'ed'.
'past'+'ed'='PASTED'

(Another definition for pasted that I've seen is " Thrashed - glued".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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