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Backing musical about 3 worker (9)

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operative

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'worker' is the definition.
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'backing musical about 3' is the wordplay.
'backing' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'musical' becomes 'evita' (Andrew Lloyd Webber musical).
'about p' becomes 'repo' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'evita'+'repo'='evitarepo'
'evitarepo' in reverse letter order is 'OPERATIVE'.

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(Other definitions for operative that I've seen before include "Having force - skilled worker" , "Efficient" , "Working (person)" , "Significant" , "secret agent" .)

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