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Name of early space traveller getting 'You are it!' regularly (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

yuri

'name of early space traveller' is the definition.
(Yuri Gagarin, first man in space)

'you are it regularly' is the wordplay.
'regularly' indicates alternate letters (regularly take one letter, leave next etc.).
'you'+'are'+'it'='youareit'
The alternate letters of 'youareit' are 'YURI'.

'getting' acts as a link.

(Another definition for yuri that I've seen is " -- Gagarin, cosmonaut".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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