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Swallow and insect flying around live action

Ross

I believe the answer is:

believe

'swallow' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'insect flying around live action' is the wordplay.
'insect' becomes 'bee' (bee is a kind of insect).
'flying around' indicates putting letters inside.
'action' is an anagram indicator.
'live' with letters rearranged gives 'liev'.
'bee' placed around 'liev' is 'BELIEVE'.

'and' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for believe that I've seen before include "Have faith; accept" , "Trust" , "Accept as true" , "Credit; accept" , "Swallow" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times.
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