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Catalogue includes unknown composer (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

liszt

'composer' is the definition.
(Franz Liszt)

'catalogue includes unknown' is the wordplay.
'catalogue' becomes 'list' (a catalogue is a list of items).
'includes' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'unknown' becomes 'z' (represents an unknown value in algebra).
'list' placed around 'z' is 'LISZT'.

(Other definitions for liszt that I've seen before include "music writer" , "Hungarian piano virtuoso, d. 1886" , "Pianist, father of Cosima Wagner" , "Franz . . . . ., great Hungarian composer" , "Hungarian composer/pianist" .)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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