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Magazine directors finding backing for paper (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

clipboard

'backing for paper' is the definition.
(paper might be pinned to a clipboard)

'magazine directors' is the wordplay.
'magazine' becomes 'clip' (clip can mean a magazine of ammunition in a gun).
'directors' becomes 'board' (I've seen this before).
'clip'+'board'='CLIPBOARD'

'finding' is the link.

(Other definitions for clipboard that I've seen before include "What may lie behind writing" , "text-copying facility" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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