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Old land workers re-established hostel (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

helots

'old land workers' is the definition.
(helots were slaves in Sparta)

're-established hostel' is the wordplay.
're-established' indicates anagramming the letters.
'hostel' with letters rearranged gives 'HELOTS'.

(Other definitions for helots that I've seen before include "Ancient Spartans, in hotels?" , "They worked like slaves" , "Slave labour" , "Serfs" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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