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Perhaps Morricone at home stops one climbing (5)

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ennio

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'perhaps morricone' is the definition.
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'home stops one climbing' is the wordplay.
'home' becomes 'in' ('he's home' can mean 'he's in').
'stops' means one lot of letters goes inside another (stopping can mean blocking a gap).
'climbing' is a reversal indicator (in a down clue, letters climb up).
'in' put within 'one' is 'oinne'.
'oinne' backwards is 'ENNIO'.

'at' acts as a link.

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