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Judging case about barrels rebuilt for cheese (9)

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jarlsberg

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'cheese' is the definition.
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'judging case about barrels rebuilt' is the wordplay.
'case' means to remove the middle letters.
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'rebuilt' is an anagram indicator.
'judging' with its centre removed is 'jg'.
'barrels' is an anagram of 'arlsber'.
'jg' going around 'arlsber' is 'JARLSBERG'.

'for' acts as a link.

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