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Musical excerpts for which versatile singer not required? (9)

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I believe the answer is:

ringtones

'musical excerpts' is the definition.
(short pieces of music)

'versatile singer not required?' is the wordplay.
'versatile' indicates anagramming the letters.
'required?' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'singer'+'not'='singernot'
'singernot' anagrammed gives 'RINGTONES'.

'for which' is the link.

(Another definition for ringtones that I've seen is " phone numbers?".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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