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Instrument seen with celebrity around India (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sitar

'instrument' is the definition.
(musical instrument)

'celebrity around india' is the wordplay.
'celebrity' becomes 'star' (a star is a celebrity or famous person).
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'india' becomes 'i' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'star' going around 'i' is 'SITAR'.

'seen with' is the link.

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

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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