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Worship temptress wearing slip, flip-flops? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

revere

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'worship temptress' is the definition.
'revere' can be an answer for 'worship' (synonyms). I am not certain of the 'temptress' bit.

'wearing slip flip-flops?' is the wordplay.
'wearing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'slip' becomes 'err' (to err is to make an error).
'flip' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'flops?' becomes 'eve' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'err' back-to-front is 'rre'.
'rre' enclosing 'eve' is 'REVERE'.

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(Other definitions for revere that I've seen before include "Greatly admire" , "Worship, usually a deity" , "Hold in great respect" , "Paul, perhaps" , "Hold in very high regard" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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