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Old wine, rubbish brought up for digger (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

excavator

'digger' is the definition.
('excavator' can be a synonym of 'digger')

'old wine rubbish brought up' is the wordplay.
'old' becomes 'ex'.
'wine' becomes 'cava' (I have seen 'Spanish wine ' mean 'cava' so perhaps 'wine' could also mean 'cava'**).
'rubbish' becomes 'rot' (I've seen this before).
'brought up' is a reversal indicator (down clues only).
'rot' backwards is 'tor'.
'ex'+'cava'+'tor'='EXCAVATOR'

'for' is the link.

(Another definition for excavator that I've seen is " Powered machine for digging earth".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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