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Conductor seen in the morning behind a tree (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

beecham

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

'the morning behind a tree' is the wordplay.
'the morning' becomes 'am' (as in 12:00 AM).
'behind' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'a tree' becomes 'beech' (beech is a kind of tree).
'am' after 'beech' is 'BEECHAM'.

'seen in' acts as a link.

(Another definition for beecham that I've seen is " Sit Thomas --, C20 English conductor".)

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