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Producer of notes and letters from abroad in charge of fight (5,3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

music box

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'producer of notes' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't understand how one could define the other.

'letters from abroad in charge of fight' is the wordplay.
'letters from abroad in charge of' becomes 'music' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'fight' becomes 'box' (boxing is a kind of fighting).
'music'+'box'='MUSIC-BOX'

'and' is the link.

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(Another definition for music box that I've seen is " What plays when opened".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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