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Stupid person presenting pudding to the Queen (6)

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I believe the answer is:

duffer

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'stupid person' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'pudding to the queen' is the wordplay.
'pudding' becomes 'duff' (duff is a kind of pudding).
'to the queen' becomes 'er' (Elizabeth Regina).
'duff'+'er'='DUFFER'

'presenting' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for duffer that I've seen before include "Informally an inefficient person" , "Fogey" , "Incompetent person" , "Fed fur to informally think person" , "Fed fur to foolish person" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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