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Toothless old PM associated with gallery (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

edentate

'toothless' is the definition.
(edentate means lacking teeth)

'old pm associated with gallery' is the wordplay.
'old pm' becomes 'eden' (Anthony Eden, UK prime minister 1955-1957).
'associated with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'gallery' becomes 'tate' (Tate Modern, Tate Britain etc).
'eden'+'tate'='EDENTATE'

(Other definitions for edentate that I've seen before include "sloth, say" , "Toothless creature" , "Toothless mammal" , "lacking bite" , "Gummy" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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