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Urchin drains pine off (11)

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I believe the answer is:

guttersnipe

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'urchin' is the definition.
(I know that guttersnipe is a type of urchin)

'drains pine off' is the wordplay.
'drains' becomes 'gutters' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'off' indicates anagramming the letters.
'pine' is an anagram of 'nipe'.
'gutters'+'nipe'='GUTTERSNIPE'

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(Other definitions for guttersnipe that I've seen before include "(Neglected) child of the streets" , "Street urchin" , "Scruffy street child" , "Person behaving as one brought up in squalor" , "poor kid" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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