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Turns up on The Hill for the music and is likely to repeat everything you say (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

parrot

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'the music and is likely to repeat everything you say' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'turns up on the hill' is the wordplay.
'turns' says the letters should be written backwards.
'up' becomes 'rap' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'the hill' becomes 'tor' (tor is a kind of hill).
'rap' after 'tor' is 'torrap'.
'torrap' in reverse letter order is 'PARROT'.

'for' is the link.

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(Other definitions for parrot that I've seen before include "Repeat automatically" , "Ape" , "Squawking bird" , "One repeating" , "Vividly coloured bird" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times.
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