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Old character voiced legendary blade (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

excalibur

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'blade' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'old character voiced legendary' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'old' could be 'ex' and 'ex' is located in the answer.
'character' could be 'u' and 'u' is located in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for excalibur that I've seen before include "Traditional weapon" , "The legendary sword of King Arthur" , "Legendary weapon" , "Steel flourished years ago" , "King Arthur's magic sword" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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