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Back on board, wearing headphones and loose items of clothing (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

caftans

'loose items of clothing' is the definition.
(I know this)

'back on board wearing headphones' is the wordplay.
'back on board' becomes 'aft' (at the back of a ship).
'wearing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'headphones' becomes 'cans' (I've seen this before).
'aft' going inside 'cans' is 'CAFTANS'.

'and' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for caftans that I've seen before include "Long clothes" , "Loose clothes" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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