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After study I will have fireplace to blacken (9)

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I believe the answer is:

denigrate

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'to blacken' is the definition.
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'after study i will have' is the wordplay.
'after' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'study' becomes 'den' (I've seen this before).
'will have' becomes 'grate' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'den' next to 'i' is 'deni'.
'deni'+'grate'='DENIGRATE'

'fireplace' acts as a link.
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(Other definitions for denigrate that I've seen before include "Slight" , "Run down" , "Bad-mouth" , "Disparage" , "Criticise, belittle" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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