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Fairly sour press employee caught dipping into grant (7)

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I believe the answer is:

subacid

'fairly sour' is the definition.
(describing a somewhat sharp fruit)

'press employee caught dipping into grant' is the wordplay.
'press employee' becomes 'sub' (subeditor).
'caught' becomes 'c' (cricket abbreviation).
'dipping into' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'grant' becomes 'aid' (I've seen this before).
'c' placed inside 'aid' is 'acid'.
'sub'+'acid'='SUBACID'

(Another definition for subacid that I've seen is " rather sour".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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