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Has to be seen rising around Land's End (5)

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I believe the answer is:

needs

'has' is the definition.
('need' can be a synonym of 'have')

'seen rising around land's end' is the wordplay.
'rising' says the letters should be written backwards (going up in a down clue).
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'end' indicates one should take the final letters.
The last letter of 'land' is 'd'.
'seen' reversed gives 'nees'.
'nees' enclosing 'd' is 'NEEDS'.

'to be' is the link.

(Other definitions for needs that I've seen before include "Things that are wanted" , "Necessities" , "shopping-list, say" , "Calls for" , "necessity once" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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