Mallet regularly grabbed by savage sculptor (7)

I believe the answer is:

gormley

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'savage sculptor' is the definition.
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'mallet regularly grabbed by' is the wordplay.
'regularly' means one should take alternating letters (regularly take one letter, leave next etc.).
'grabbed' indicates putting letters inside (inserted letters are grabbed).
'by' becomes 'gory' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The alternate letters of 'mallet' are 'mle'.
'mle' going into 'gory' is 'GORMLEY'.

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