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Given to the new lad to carry, you find (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

allocated

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'given' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with ownership as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?

'the new lad to carry you find' is the wordplay.
'the new' indicates anagramming the letters.
'to carry' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'you find' becomes 'locate' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'lad' is an anagram of 'ald'.
'ald' placed around 'locate' is 'ALLOCATED'.

'to' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for allocated that I've seen before include "set aside" , "Apportioned" , "Assigned" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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