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Bandage the Parisian put round broken guitar (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ligature

'bandage' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'the parisian put round broken guitar' is the wordplay.
'the parisian' becomes 'le' (definite article in French).
'put round' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'broken' is an anagram indicator.
'guitar' with letters rearranged gives 'igatur'.
'le' placed around 'igatur' is 'LIGATURE'.

(Other definitions for ligature that I've seen before include "Thread used by surgeons" , "link" , "Cord for tying blood-vessels" , "Musical slur" , "Thread used to constrict the flow of blood" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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