The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 plus 4 letter word DONALD DUCK
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More clues leading to the result DONALD DUCK
- Old and decrepit, fail to answer film star with animation
- Slip into supermarket for reduction: avoid one with bill
- Screen favourite cut over playing lad almost nude
- Love going after Mitt’s likely successor, animated character
- Godfather with a chance to consume skin of dead bird apparently brought to life
- Bradman having failure with the bat seen as comic figure?
- Say, Bradman scored zero; what a character
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The straight part
We know that "Screen favourite" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case screen favourite = donald duck.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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