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He turns up in the fields (9)

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I believe the answer is:

ploughman

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'he turns up in the fields' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

'he' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'he' could be 'man' and 'man' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'plough' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for ploughman that I've seen before include "Farm worker" , "One with shares in Labour" , "Adult having a share" , "Agricultural worker (having lunch?)" , "Tiller of soil" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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