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Behaves reasonably, acknowledging comedy, for example, is reasonably good (5,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

plays fair

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'behaves reasonably acknowledging' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'comedy for example is reasonably good' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'comedy for example' could be 'play' (comedy is a kind of play) and 'play' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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