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Nick, with your old-fashioned support, is unobtrusive (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

stealthy

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'unobtrusive' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'nick with your old' is the wordplay.
'nick' becomes 'steal' (I've seen this before).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'your old' becomes 'thy' ('thy' historically meant 'your').
'steal'+'thy'='STEALTHY'

'fashioned support is' is the link.
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(Other definitions for stealthy that I've seen before include "Underhand" , "That's Ely (anag.)" , "Moving surreptitiously" , "'Furtive, surreptitious (8)'" , "Unobtrusive" .)

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