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Music-maker spilled oil in French wine (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

violin

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'music-maker' is the definition.
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'spilled oil in french wine' is the wordplay.
'spilled' is an anagram indicator.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'french wine' becomes 'vin' ('wine' in French).
'oil' is an anagram of 'oli'.
'oli' going inside 'vin' is 'VIOLIN'.

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(Other definitions for violin that I've seen before include "It'a played with a bow" , "Instrument with four strings" , "An elevated fiddle" , "Nigel Kennedy instrument" , "A stringed musical instrument, say a Stradivarius" .)

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