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Five inside organising rent for wine merchant (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

vintner

'wine merchant' is the definition.
('vintner' can be a synonym of 'wine merchant')

'five inside organising rent' is the wordplay.
'five' becomes 'v' (roman numeral).
'inside' becomes 'in' (**).
'organising' is an anagram indicator.
'rent' with letters rearranged gives 'tner'.
'v'+'in'+'tner'='VINTNER'

'for' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for vintner that I've seen before include "Wine merchant" , "A wine-merchant" , "Wine seller" , "Wine producer" , "one in red and white?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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