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Wines found by a girl on a backstreet (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

clarets

'wines' is the definition.
(claret is a kind of wine)

'a girl on a backstreet' is the wordplay.
'a girl' becomes 'clare' ().
'on' means one lot of letters go next to another (in a down clue, letters appear on others).
'a backstreet' becomes 'ts' ('st' backwards).
'clare'+'ts'='CLARETS'

'found by' is the link.

(Another definition for clarets that I've seen is " Wines that are dark red".)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Independent.
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