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I, at the office, help with the turnover (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

india

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'i' is the definition.
(India is I in the NATO phonetic alphabet)

'at the office help with the turnover' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'at' could be 'in' (synonymous in some cases - eg at school, in school) and 'in' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'dia' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for india that I've seen before include "One preceding Juliet" , ""Bharat", locally" , "Territory" , "Country of the Ganges" , "Sub-continental country" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times and The Sunday Times.
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