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Sending up musical traveller on island is out of order (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

inoperative

'out of order' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'sending up musical traveller on island' is the subsidiary indication.
'sending up' is a reversal indicator.
'musical' becomes 'evita' (I've seen this before).
'traveller' becomes 'rep'.
'island' becomes 'i'.
'evita'+'rep'+'on'+'i'='evitareponi'
'evitareponi' written backwards gives 'inoperative'.

'is' is the link.

(Other definitions for inoperative that I've seen before include "It's useless" , "with no effect" , "Anna -, Russian poet (Requiem)" , "Not in working order" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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