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Ran sale to reconstruct team (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

arsenal

'team' is the definition.
(Arsenal football club)

'ran sale to reconstruct' is the wordplay.
'to reconstruct' is an anagram indicator (I've seen 'reconstructed' mean this).
'ran'+'sale'='ransale'
'ransale' with letters rearranged gives 'ARSENAL'.

(Other definitions for arsenal that I've seen before include "London premiership football team" , "Armoury - London football club" , "munitions factory" , "Weapons/ammo store" , "Eleven" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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