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Trendy Clio's oddly getting gold tooth (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

incisor

'tooth' is the definition.
(I know that incisor is a type of tooth)

'trendy clio's oddly getting gold' is the wordplay.
'trendy' becomes 'in' ('in' can mean fashionable).
'oddly' means one should take alternating letters (letters in odd-numbered positions).
'getting' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'gold' becomes 'or' ('or' is the heraldic name for gold).
The alternate letters of 'clios' are 'cis'.
'in'+'cis'+'or'='INCISOR'

(Other definitions for incisor that I've seen before include "something with bite" , "Chisel-edged tooth" , "Ivory perhaps" , "One takes a bite" , "cutter" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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