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Pottery items are new, delivered after soil (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

earthenware

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'pottery' is the definition.
(I know that pottery can be written as earthenware)

'items are new delivered after soil' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'are' is 'ear' which is located in the answer.
an anagram of 'new' is 'enw' which is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for earthenware that I've seen before include "Coarse pottery" , "articles fired" , "Vessels made of baked clay" , "Terracotta" , "Pots etc" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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