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Lucky having two minutes surrounded by colourful bird (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

jammy

'lucky' is the definition.
(jammy means lucky in a smug way)

'two minutes surrounded by colourful bird' is the wordplay.
'two' indicates the doubling of some letters.
'minutes' becomes 'm' (common abbreviation).
'surrounded by' is an insertion indicator.
'colourful bird' becomes 'jay' (the blue jay).
'm' doubled is 'mm'.
'mm' going inside 'jay' is 'JAMMY'.

'having' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for jammy that I've seen before include "Fortunate; sticky?" , "Lucky - as conserve" , "Lucky (informal)" , "Lucky (and sticky?)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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