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A new job's holding certain appeal for solitary people (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

anchorites

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'solitary people' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?

'a new job's holding certain appeal' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'a' could be 'an' and 'an' is found in the answer.
'appeal' could be 'it' and 'it' is present in the answer.
'job's' could be 'chores' ('chore' can be a synonym of 'job') and 'chores' is present in the remaining letters.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

'for' acts as a link.

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I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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