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Skinflint provides money in an instant? The reverse all round (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

timon

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'skinflint' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'money in an instant? the reverse all round' is the wordplay.
'money in an instant?' becomes 'omit' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'the reverse' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'all' becomes 'any' ('any' can be similar in meaning to 'all').
'round' means to look at the middle letters.
The middle letter of 'any' is 'n'.
'omit' back-to-front is 'timo'.
'timo'+'n'='TIMON'

'provides' is the link.

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(Other definitions for timon that I've seen before include "-- of Athens (play)" , "The Bard's Athenian" , "Shakespeare's Athenian" , "legendary misanthrope" , "title role" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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