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Suppressed joke about greed regularly (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

gagged

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'suppressed' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are past participle verbs, I don't see how one could define the other.

'joke about greed regularly' is the wordplay.
'joke about' becomes 'gag' (a gag is a joke or witticism. I am not sure about the 'about' bit.).
'regularly' means one should take alternating letters (regularly take one letter, leave next etc.).
The alternating letters of 'greed' are 'ged'.
'gag'+'ged'='GAGGED'

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(Other definitions for gagged that I've seen before include "Muffled or retched" , "Silenced" , "Struggled for breath or prevented from speaking out" , "Not allowed to speak out" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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