One getting carpet to fly around these days! (8)

I believe the answer is:

accepter

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'one' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'carpet to fly around these days' is the wordplay.
'to fly' indicates an anagram.
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'these days' becomes 'ce' (I've seen this in other clues).
'carpet' is an anagram of 'acpter'.
'acpter' placed around 'ce' is 'ACCEPTER'.

'getting' is the link.

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I've seen this clue in The Hindu.

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