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Boring people make this missile after bomb (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

mineshaft

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'boring people make this missile after bomb' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'missile after bomb' is the wordplay.
'missile' becomes 'shaft' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'bomb' becomes 'mine' (I've seen this before).
'shaft' put after 'mine' is 'MINESHAFT'.

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(Other definitions for mineshaft that I've seen before include "one's got bored" , "Vertical hole" , "not a feature of 4, 21 [OPENCAST MINING]" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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