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Frenzied mob bringing loads back round for village raffle? (7)

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I believe the answer is:

tombola

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'village raffle?' is the definition.
'tombola' can be an answer for 'raffle?' (thesaurus). I'm not sure about the 'village' bit.

'frenzied mob bringing loads back round' is the wordplay.
'frenzied' is an anagram indicator.
'bringing loads back' becomes 'tola' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'round' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'mob' with letters rearranged gives 'mbo'.
'mbo' placed within 'tola' is 'TOMBOLA'.

'for' is the link.

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(Other definitions for tombola that I've seen before include "Lottery at fetes etc" , "Game often found at fetes" , "fund-raising event" , "Game with tickets drawn from a revolving drum" , "Lottery game" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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