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Importuner ultimately serving a long time in prison cell (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dungeon

'prison cell' is the definition.
(I know that Dungeon is a type of prison cell)

'importuner ultimately serving a long time' is the wordplay.
'importuner' becomes 'dun' (dun can mean someone who importunes).
'ultimately' says to take the final letters.
'a long time' becomes 'eon' (eon is a kind of long time).
The final letter of 'serving' is 'g'.
'dun'+'g'+'eon'='DUNGEON'

'in' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for dungeon that I've seen before include "Dark underground cell for prisoners" , "Underground prison-cell" , "Prison cell, often underground" , "Eg, the Black Hole of Calcutta" , "Unpleasant cell" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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