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Put out and mostly worried about bloke (7)

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I believe the answer is:

emanate

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'put out' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'and mostly worried about bloke' is the wordplay.
'mostly' means to remove the last letter.
'worried' becomes 'ate' (something worrying may eat someone up).
'about' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'bloke' becomes 'em' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'and' with its last letter removed is 'an'.
'an'+'ate'='anate'
'anate' after 'em' is 'EMANATE'.

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(Other definitions for emanate that I've seen before include "Issue forth, from a source" , "Issue or originate from manatee" , "Send out" , "Come forth" , "Emerge or originate" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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