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Rating so poor for musician (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

organist

'musician' is the definition.
(organist is a kind of musician)

'rating so poor' is the wordplay.
'poor' indicates anagramming the letters.
'rating'+'so'='ratingso'
'ratingso' is an anagram of 'ORGANIST'.

'for' is the link.

(Other definitions for organist that I've seen before include "Cathedral musician" , "It groans for church musician" , "Accompanist, keyboard player" , "Church instr. player" , "Roasting (anag)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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