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Uranium record held by source of wine: cunning! (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

vulpine

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

'uranium record held by source of wine' is the wordplay.
'uranium' becomes 'U' (U is the chemical symbol for uranium).
'record' becomes 'L-P' (abbreviation for long play record).
'held by' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'source of wine' becomes 'vine' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'u'+'lp'='ulp'
'ulp' put within 'vine' is 'VULPINE'.

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(Other definitions for vulpine that I've seen before include "Like a fox -- liven up (anag)" , "Being foxy" , "Resembling a fox" , "Relating to foxes" , "Characteristic of a fox" .)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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