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Instrument, from India originally, carried by celebrity (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sitar

'instrument' is the definition.
(sitar is a kind of instrument)

'india originally carried by celebrity' is the wordplay.
'originally' says to take the initial letters.
'carried by' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'celebrity' becomes 'star' (I've seen this before).
The initial letter of 'india' is 'i'.
'i' put into 'star' is 'SITAR'.

'from' is the link.

(Other definitions for sitar that I've seen before include "Indian stringed instrument" , "Long necked and often plucked" , "Indian musical instrument like long-necked lute" , "Large Indian lute" , "instrument out east" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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