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Warm-up exercise may be fine in bowling googlies (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

solfeggio

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'warm-up exercise' is the definition.
'solfeggio' can be an answer for 'exercise' (I have seen 'Musical exercise ' mean 'solfeggio' so perhaps 'exercise' could also mean 'solfeggio'). I'm not certain of the 'warm-up' bit.

'fine in bowling googlies' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'fine' could be 'f' (abbreviation in pencil classifications) and 'f' is found in the answer.
an anagram of 'googlies' is 'soleggio' which is located in the left over letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'may be' is the link.

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(Other definitions for solfeggio that I've seen before include "Singing exercise" , "Musical exercise" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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