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Called in a time back to categorise (7)

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I believe the answer is:

arrange

'categorise' is the definition.
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'called in a time back' is the wordplay.
'called' becomes 'rang' (called on the phone).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a time' becomes 'era' (an era is a period of time).
'back' is a reversal indicator.
'era' backwards is 'are'.
'rang' going inside 'are' is 'ARRANGE'.

'to' is the link.

(Other definitions for arrange that I've seen before include "Orchestrate - order" , "Put in order; plan" , "Put in neat order" , "Set in order" , "Sort" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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