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An unpleasant noise surrounding boy in fairy tale (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

aladdin

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'fairy tale' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?

'an unpleasant noise surrounding boy' is the wordplay.
'an' becomes 'a'.
'unpleasant noise' becomes 'din' (a din is a noisy disturbance).
'surrounding' is an insertion indicator.
'boy' becomes 'lad' (informal term for boy).
'a'+'din'='adin'
'adin' placed around 'lad' is 'ALADDIN'.

'in' is the link.

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(Other definitions for aladdin that I've seen before include "Magice lamp finder" , "[FAIRY STORY REF]" , "Panto lead role" , "Arabian Nights character with cave" , "Common panto hero" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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