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Nominal source of the confusion about a police inspector! (5)

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I believe the answer is:

edith

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'nominal source' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'the confusion about a police inspector' is the wordplay.
'confusion' indicates anagramming the letters.
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a police inspector' becomes 'di' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'the' anagrammed gives 'eth'.
'eth' placed around 'di' is 'EDITH'.

'of' is the link.

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(Other definitions for edith that I've seen before include "Woman" , "Woman's name" , "- Cavell, WW 1 heroine" , "- Cavell, nurse executed in 1915" , "Evans, Sitwell or Piaf" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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