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Concerned with us, sprites supply us (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ourselves

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'us' is the definition.
(us refers to ourselves)

'concerned with us sprites' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'sprites' could be 'elves' (elf is a kind of sprite) and 'elves' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'ours' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'supply' is the link.

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(Other definitions for ourselves that I've seen before include "See 16" , "Emphatically us" , "Us, reflexively" , "We or us personally" .)

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