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Funny shorts for fellow radio presenter are wrong style, essentially (3,3,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tom and jerry

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'funny shorts' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot see how one could define the other.

'fellow radio presenter are wrong style essentially' is the wordplay.
'fellow' becomes 'toman' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'radio presenter' becomes 'DJ'.
'are wrong' becomes 'err' (to err is make an error).
'essentially' says to take the centre.
The centre of 'style' is 'y'.
'toman'+'dj'+'err'+'y'='TOM-AND-JERRY'

'for' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for tom and jerry that I've seen before include "Animated cat and mouse" , "Drink" , "Cartoon enemies" , "Cat and mouse cartoon capers" , "animated couple, one being a chaser" .)

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