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Yellow head of cage bird (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

craven

'yellow' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'head of cage bird' is the wordplay.
'head of' says to take the initial letters.
'bird' becomes 'raven' (raven is a kind of bird).
The first letter of 'cage' is 'c'.
'c'+'raven'='CRAVEN'

(Other definitions for craven that I've seen before include "Cowardly and fearful" , "Contemptibly cowardly" , "Chicken" , "Abjectly fearful" , "Lacking courage, cowardly" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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