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Letters providing protection for owner of mobile home? (5,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

snail mail

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'letters' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'protection for owner of mobile home?' is the wordplay.
'protection' becomes 'mail' (mail is a kind of protection).
'for' says to put letters next to each other (I've seen this in other clues).
'owner of mobile home?' becomes 'snail' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'mail' after 'snail' is 'SNAIL MAIL'.

'providing' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for snail mail that I've seen before include "traditional post" , "The conventional postal service" , "Slow delivery" , "old-fashioned correspondence?" , "Modern jargon for letter post, mollusc-slow compared to electronic transport" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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