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Charlatan botched fur trades (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fraudster

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

'botched fur trades' is the wordplay.
'botched' is an anagram indicator.
'fur'+'trades'='furtrades'
'furtrades' with letters rearranged gives 'FRAUDSTER'.

(Other definitions for fraudster that I've seen before include "Con man" , "Conman" , "One perpetrating a deception" , "one would do" , "28 [CHEAT]" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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