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Player saw red, one wearing bronze (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tragedian

'player' is the definition.
(tragedian is a kind of player)

'saw red one wearing bronze' is the wordplay.
'saw red' becomes 'raged' (I've seen this in other clues).
'one' becomes 'i' (Roman numeral).
'wearing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'bronze' becomes 'tan' ('tan' can be a synonym of 'bronze').
'raged'+'i'='ragedi'
'ragedi' going inside 'tan' is 'TRAGEDIAN'.

(Other definitions for tragedian that I've seen before include "Dramatist" , "actor in Macbeth?" , "Egad, I rant about dramatic actor" , "Serious actor" , "A great din (anag) - actor" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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