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Deserter stuck in ravine confusedly recounting events (9)

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I believe the answer is:

narrative

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'recounting events' is the definition.
'narrative' can be an answer for 'recounting' (thesaurus). I'm not certain of the 'events' bit.

'deserter stuck in ravine confusedly' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'deserter' could be 'rat' (I've seen this before) and 'rat' is located in the answer.
an anagram of 'ravine' is 'narive' which is within the remaining letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for narrative that I've seen before include "Popeye's vegetable" , "Spoken account; story" , "Story recounting events" , "Verbal account" , "relation" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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