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Iron Maiden pursued by an employee of The Times? (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pressman

'employee of the times?' is the definition.
(The Times is a newspaper)

'iron maiden pursued by an' is the wordplay.
'iron' becomes 'press' (I've seen this before**).
'maiden' becomes 'm' (cricket abbreviation).
'pursued by' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'press'+'m'+'an'='PRESSMAN'

(Other definitions for pressman that I've seen before include "correspondent?" , "Male journalist" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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