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Senior has boiled rice regularly (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

oldie

'senior' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'boiled rice regularly' is the wordplay.
'regularly' indicates alternate letters (regularly take one letter, leave next etc.).
'boiled'+'rice'='boiledrice'
The alternating letters of 'boiledrice' are 'OLDIE'.

'has' is the link.

(Other definitions for oldie that I've seen before include "Song of yesteryear" , "classic film perhaps" , "Person of a certain age?" , "pensioner" , "One getting on" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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