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Artist gets drunk, one making clever plans (10)

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I believe the answer is:

strategist

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'one making clever plans' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

'artist gets drunk' is the wordplay.
'drunk' is an anagram indicator.
'artist'+'gets'='artistgets'
'artistgets' is an anagram of 'STRATEGIST'.

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(Other definitions for strategist that I've seen before include "general" , "Expert on the art of planning war" , "Long-term planner" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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