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Moving more quickly to secure extremely nice clasp? (8)

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I believe the answer is:

fastener

'clasp?' is the definition.
(clasp is a kind of fastener)

'moving more quickly to secure extremely nice' is the wordplay.
'moving more quickly' becomes 'faster' (I've seen this before).
'to secure' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'extremely' means to remove the middle letters.
'nice' with its middle removed is 'ne'.
'faster' going around 'ne' is 'FASTENER'.

(Other definitions for fastener that I've seen before include "Pin, popper or zip, perhaps" , "Zip, clasp, eyelet ..." , "See 23" , "Stud perhaps" , "Clip, catch or other means of fixing securely" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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