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Wine-lover, slippery weaselly one (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

wolverine

'weaselly one' is the definition.
(type of weasel)

'wine-lover slippery' is the wordplay.
'slippery' indicates an anagram (I've seen this in other clues).
'wine'+'lover'='winelover'
'winelover' anagrammed gives 'WOLVERINE'.

(Other definitions for wolverine that I've seen before include "Large carnivore" , "Evil owner of lupine female" , "wild beast" , "glutton, in America" , "Wild animal, also known as glutton" .)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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