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Treasonous face admitting nothing in cunning (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

disloyal

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'treasonous' is the definition.
('disloyal' can be similar in meaning to 'treasonous')

'face admitting nothing in cunning' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'nothing' could be 'o' (looks like zero - 0) and 'o' is present in the answer.
'cunning' could be 'sly' ('sly' can be a synonym of 'cunning') and 'sly' is found within the remaining letters.
'face' could be 'dial' (dial is a kind of face) and 'dial' is found in the remaining letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for disloyal that I've seen before include "Deserting allegiance or duty" , "Not true or faithful in one's relationships" , "Faithless" , "Not faithful, unpatriotic" , "Deserting one's allegiance" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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