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Delegate's outside to help providing warrant (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

deserve

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

'delegate's outside to help' is the wordplay.
'outside' suggests removing the centre.
'to help' becomes 'serve' (serving is a kind of helping).
'delegate' with its middle removed is 'de'.
'de'+'serve'='DESERVE'

'providing' is the link.

(Other definitions for deserve that I've seen before include "Be entitled to" , "Merit (something)" , "Be worth" , "Warrant" , "rate" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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