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Designed by yours truly and one of the workers (5)

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meant

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'designed' is the definition.
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'yours truly and one of the workers' is the wordplay.
'yours truly' becomes 'me'.
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'one of the workers' becomes 'ant' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'me'+'ant'='MEANT'

'by' is the link.

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(Other definitions for meant that I've seen before include "Deliberate" , "planned" , "Aimed" , "proposed" , "designed" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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