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Alpha males engaged in welcome correspondence (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

agreement

'correspondence' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'alpha males engaged in welcome' is the wordplay.
'alpha' becomes 'a' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'males' becomes 'men' (man is a kind of male).
'engaged in' is an insertion indicator.
'welcome' becomes 'greet' (I've seen this before).
'men' placed inside 'greet' is 'greement'.
'a'+'greement'='AGREEMENT'

(Other definitions for agreement that I've seen before include "match" , "concert" , "deal" , "Union < matching" , "Concord, harmony" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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