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Take undue advantage of don covering at university (3,4)

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I believe the answer is:

put upon

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'take undue advantage of don covering at university' is the definition.
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'don covering at university' is the wordplay.
'don' becomes 'puton' ('put on' can be a synonym of 'don').
'covering' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'at university' becomes 'up'.
'puton' placed around 'up' is 'PUT-UPON'.

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(Other definitions for put upon that I've seen before include "Place on top of - or exploit" , "as Cinderella was" , "Inconvenienced" , "Abused" , "Take advantage of" .)

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