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Labourer in Ventnor initially welcomed into fighting force (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

navvy

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'labourer' is the definition.
(navvy is a kind of labourer)

'ventnor initially welcomed into fighting force' is the wordplay.
'initially' says to take the initial letters.
'welcomed into' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'fighting force' becomes 'navy' (navy is a kind of force. I am not sure about the 'fighting' bit.).
The initial letter of 'ventnor' is 'v'.
'v' going into 'navy' is 'NAVVY'.

'in' is the link.

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(Other definitions for navvy that I've seen before include "Canal constructor" , "Labourer, originally digging the canals" , "Construction labourer" , "Construction worker" , "Labourer working on canals, roads, railways etc?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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