Ordinary chap’s reduced list, including fuse to be put back (6,3)

Guardian Cryptic #29047 | 23 Across | 2023-04-18
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

definition: 'little man' used to describe e.g an underdog going up against the establishment LITAN-[y]="reduced list", around MELT="fuse" reversed/"put back"

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