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Room next to first musician (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

cellist

'musician' is the definition.
(I know that cellist is a type of musician)

'room next to first' is the wordplay.
'room' becomes 'cell' (cell is a kind of room).
'next to' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'first' becomes 'ist' (ist resembles cst).
'cell'+'ist'='CELLIST'

(Other definitions for cellist that I've seen before include "E.g. Casals, du Pre" , "Du Pre or Lloyd Weber" , "Member of orchestra" , "String player" , "Lloyd Webber?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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