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Horse carrying pack let loose in town square (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

marketplace

'town square' is the definition.

'horse carrying pack let loose' is the wordplay.
'horse' becomes 'mare' (mare is a kind of horse**).
'carrying' is an insertion indicator.
'loose' is an anagram indicator (letters are loosened from their original positions).
'pack'+'let'='packlet'
'packlet' is an anagram of 'ketplac'.
'mare' placed around 'ketplac' is 'MARKETPLACE'.

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for marketplace that I've seen before include "Commercial arena" , "The world of buying and selling" , "World of commercial transactions" , "Scene of buying and selling" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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