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Unwilling to go forward and put pig in new home? (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

resty

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'unwilling to go forward' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.

'put pig in new home?' is the wordplay.
'put' becomes 'rest' (resting is a kind of putting).
'pig in new home?' becomes 'y' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'rest'+'y'='RESTY'

'and' is the link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Another definition for resty that I've seen is " Sluggish".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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