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He can always get Beethoven's fifth on the radio (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

seth

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'he can always' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

'beethoven's fifth on the radio' is the wordplay.
'beethoven's fifth' becomes 'h' (5th letter of 'beethoven').
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'the radio' becomes 'set' (I've seen this in other clues).
'h' put after 'set' is 'SETH'.

'get' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for seth that I've seen before include "Biblical character" , "Adam and Eve's third son" , "Early human" , "Vikram --, Indian author" , "said to sound archaic" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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