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Unscrupulous person: Tweedledum say? (4,3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

wide boy

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'tweedledum say?' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'unscrupulous person' is the wordplay.
'unscrupulous' becomes 'wide' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'person' becomes 'boy' (boy is a kind of person).
'wide'+'boy'='WIDE-BOY'

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(Other definitions for wide boy that I've seen before include "Tweedledum, for instance" , "A rather unscrupulous person" , "Spiv" , "petty young criminal" .)

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