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Beg urgent reforms for pioneering pressman? (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

gutenberg

'pioneering pressman?' is the definition.
(Johannes Gutenberg)

'beg urgent reforms' is the wordplay.
'reforms' indicates an anagram.
'beg'+'urgent'='begurgent'
'begurgent' is an anagram of 'GUTENBERG'.

'for' is the link.

(Other definitions for gutenberg that I've seen before include "German printing pioneer" , "He invented movable-type printing" , "Publisher" , "German printer of a 15th century Bible" , "Pioneer printer" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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