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What's small, caught by Egyptian? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

scarab

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'egyptian?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot see how they can define each other.

'what's small caught by' is the wordplay.
'what's small' becomes 's' (abbreviation - e.g. clothes size).
'caught' becomes 'c' (cricket abbreviation).
'by' becomes 'arab' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
's'+'c'+'arab'='SCARAB'

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(Other definitions for scarab that I've seen before include "Beetle, sacred to the ancient Egyptians" , "Sacred Eygptian beetle" , "divine creature" , "Large dung beetle" , "Sacred Egyptian beetle" .)

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