11 across
Duck
followed
by
a
bird
(6)
Duck followed by a bird (6)
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The definition is at the end of the clue.
How the clue works
The definition is bird — a dipper is a lovely little riverside thing. For the wordplay, duck gives you DIP (to dip down is to duck), and then a gives you PER (think "once a day" being the same as "once per day"), and you stick one after the other.