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Letter I left in printer? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

epsilon

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'letter' is the definition.
(I know that epsilon is a type of letter)

'i left in printer?' is the wordplay.
'left' becomes 'l' (common abbreviation).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'printer?' becomes 'epson' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'i'+'l'='il'
'il' going into 'epson' is 'EPSILON'.

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(Other definitions for epsilon that I've seen before include "Foreign character" , "Greek letter - pinoles (anag)" , "5th letter of the Greek alphabet" , "Fifth brightest star in a constellation" , "small number mispronounced, almost completely the wrong way round" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sunday Times and The Times.
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