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A Greek character records some evil ones (7)

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I believe the answer is:

epsilon

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'a greek character' is the definition.
(letter from the Greek alphabet)

'records some evil ones' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'records' could be 'eps' (EP is a type of record) and 'eps' is found within the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for epsilon that I've seen before include "character in Greece" , "5th letter of the Greek alphabet" , "Greek character" , "foreign letter" , "Fifth brightest star in a constellation" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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