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Forthright duke taking Irish Terriers initially round park (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

direct

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'forthright' is the definition.
('direct' can be similar in meaning to 'forthright')

'duke taking irish terriers initially round park' is the wordplay.
'duke' becomes 'd'.
'taking irish' becomes 'i' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'initially' suggests taking the first letters.
'round' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'park' becomes 'rec' (I've seen this in other clues).
The initial letter of 'terriers' is 't'.
'i'+'t'='it'
'it' placed around 'rec' is 'irect'.
'd'+'irect'='DIRECT'

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(Other definitions for direct that I've seen before include "Moving without changing direction or stopping" , "Creepy-crawly" , "Following the quickest and shortest path" , "Straight and to the point" , "Organise; straight" .)

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