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Notice earth and mire around rider? (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

addendum

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'rider?' is the definition.
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'notice earth and mire around' is the wordplay.
'notice earth' becomes 'nedda' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'mire' becomes 'mud' (synonyms).
'around' says the letters should be written backwards.
'nedda' after 'mud' is 'mudnedda'.
'mudnedda' back-to-front is 'ADDENDUM'.

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(Other definitions for addendum that I've seen before include "Textual matter added on" , "Something attached to the end, say of book" , "Material added to the end of a book" , "Something appended as to end of book" , "Extra item added at end of book" .)

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