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Warm feeling about tax cut is pretence (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

affectation

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'is pretence' is the definition.
(I have seen 'Deliberate pretence' mean 'affectation' so perhaps 'pretence' could also mean 'affectation')

'warm feeling about tax cut' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'feeling' could be 'affect' (affect is a kind of feeling) and 'affect' is located in the answer.
'about' could be 'on' (as in a book 'on' a certain topic) and 'on' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for affectation that I've seen before include "Deliberate pretence" , "Show evidence of" , "retence" , "unnatural appearance" .)

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