Ultimate tragic gamester heartily makes digital duplicate (6)

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images

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'ultimate tragic gamester heartily makes digital duplicate' is the definition.
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'heartily makes digital duplicate' is the wordplay.
'heartily' means to look at the middle letters (the inside or heart of the word).
'makes' becomes 'shits' ('shit' can be a synonym of 'make').
'digital duplicate' becomes 'mages' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The middle of 'shits' is 'i'.
'i'+'mages'='IMAGES'

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(Other definitions for images that I've seen before include "'Reflections, likenesses (6)'" , "ideas" , "Ageism (anag)" , "Likenesses or effigies" , "Pictures or photos" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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