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Is done, perhaps, for an inventor (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

edison

'for an inventor' is the definition.
(Edison is an example)

'is done perhaps' is the wordplay.
'perhaps' indicates anagramming the letters.
'is'+'done'='isdone'
'isdone' is an anagram of 'EDISON'.

(Other definitions for edison that I've seen before include "Thomas ......, famous American inventor" , "Prolific inventor" , "Thomas Alva -, US inventor" , "US inventor of phonograph, electric light etc." , "Inventor of the carbon filament lamp, d. 1931" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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