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European levy raised trapping papa who’s living abroad (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

expat

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

'european levy raised trapping papa' is the wordplay.
'european' becomes 'e' (abbreviation e.g. EU).
'levy' becomes 'tax' (tax is a kind of levy).
'raised' is a reversal indicator.
'trapping' indicates putting letters inside.
'papa' becomes 'p' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'tax' back-to-front is 'xat'.
'xat' going around 'p' is 'xpat'.
'e'+'xpat'='EXPAT'

'who's' is the link.

(Other definitions for expat that I've seen before include "Brit abroad, say" , "one working abroad" , "one settled abroad" , "One living abroad (abbrev.)" , "Emigre" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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