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Camel man of high inventiveness (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sopwith

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'inventiveness' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'camel man of high' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'man' could be 'wit' and 'wit' is located in the answer.
'of' could be 'o' and 'o' is found in the answer.
'high' could be 'h' (abbreviation) and 'h' is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for sopwith that I've seen before include "Early aviation company, made Pup and Camel fighters" , "Camel plane designer" , "Early aviation pioneer" , "aircraft designer" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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