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Why on a seesaw, nonetheless? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

anyhow

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'nonetheless?' is the definition.
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'why on a seesaw' is the wordplay.
'why' becomes 'y'.
'on' says to put letters next to each other.
'a' becomes 'an'.
'seesaw' becomes 'how' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'y' after 'an' is 'any'.
'any'+'how'='ANYHOW'

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(Other definitions for anyhow that I've seen before include "In a haphazard manner" , "In a haphazard way" , "casually" , "Be that as it may" , "Not in an orderly manner, by whatever means" .)

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