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Possession of new wine shop outside Russian capital (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ownership

'possession of' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'new wine shop outside russian capital' is the wordplay.
'new' indicates an anagram.
'outside' is an insertion indicator.
'capital' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'russian' is 'r'.
'wine'+'shop'='wineshop'
'wineshop' with letters rearranged gives 'owneship'.
'owneship' going around 'r' is 'OWNERSHIP'.

(Other definitions for ownership that I've seen before include "The right of possessing something" , "Legal title" , "Proprietorship, possession" , "Proprietary right of possession" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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