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Recoils from victory secured by Left (7)

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I believe the answer is:

rewinds

'recoils' is the definition.

'victory secured by left' is the wordplay.
'victory' becomes 'win' (I've seen this before).
'secured by' means one lot of letters goes inside another (I've seen this in other clues).
'left' becomes 'reds'.
'win' going within 'reds' is 'REWINDS'.

'from' is the link.

(Another definition for rewinds that I've seen is " Spools back".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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