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Perhaps village whine will make the announcements (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

towncrier

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'whine will make the announcements' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.

'perhaps village' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'village' could be 'town' (I've seen this in another clue) and 'town' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'crier' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Another definition for towncrier that I've seen is " Person employed to make public announcements".)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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