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Aspiring to be greedy about a jewellery item (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hoping

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'aspiring' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'about a jewellery item' is the wordplay.
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'a jewellery' becomes 'pin' (pin is a kind of jewellery).
'item' becomes 'hog' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'pin' going into 'hog' is 'HOPING'.

'to be greedy' acts as a link.
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(Other definitions for hoping that I've seen before include "Trusting, expecting" , "Desiring with an expectation of success" , "Expecting and wishing" , "Having wish or desire for" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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