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Dabbler and a friend going to ancient city (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

amateur

'dabbler' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'a friend going to ancient city' is the wordplay.
'friend' becomes 'mate' (mate is a kind of friend**).
'going to' says to put letters next to each other.
'ancient city' becomes 'ur'.
'a'+'mate'+'ur'='AMATEUR'

'and' is the link.

(Other definitions for amateur that I've seen before include "11 [UNTRAINED]" , "Layman" , "he won't get paid" , "Inexpert" , "Fancier" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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