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Musician needs axes to cut this? No, wrong (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

xylophonist

'musician' is the definition.
(xylophonist is a kind of musician)

'axes to cut this? no wrong' is the wordplay.
'axes' becomes 'xy' (x axis and y axis).
'to cut' becomes 'lop' (lopping is a kind of cutting**).
'wrong' is an anagram indicator.
'this'+'no'='thisno'
'thisno' is an anagram of 'honist'.
'xy'+'lop'+'honist'='XYLOPHONIST'

'needs' is the link.

(Another definition for xylophonist that I've seen is " Player of a percussion instrument".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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