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Mostly secretive pork-pie manufacturer, one supplying Italian capital (8)

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I believe the answer is:

cagliari

'italian capital' is the definition.
(capital of Sardinia)

'mostly secretive pork-pie manufacturer one' is the wordplay.
'mostly' means to remove the last letter.
'secretive' becomes 'cagy' (I've seen this before).
'pork-pie manufacturer' becomes 'liar' ('pork pie' is Cockney rhyming slang for 'lie').
'one' becomes 'i' (Roman numeral).
'cagy' with its last letter taken away is 'cag'.
'cag'+'liar'+'i'='CAGLIARI'

'supplying' is the link.

(Other definitions for cagliari that I've seen before include "Sardinian capital" , "Capital of Sardinia" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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