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Service and maturity - there's the rub! (7)

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I believe the answer is:

massage

'the rub' is the definition.
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'service and maturity' is the wordplay.
'service' becomes 'mass' (I've seen this in other clues**).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'maturity' becomes 'age' (I've seen this before).
'mass'+'age'='MASSAGE'

'there's' is the link.

(Other definitions for massage that I've seen before include "Manipulation of the muscles" , "Relaxing manipulation" , "Present favourably" , "Knead" , "Manipulate the muscles" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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