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Rubbish: Clean it up, and charge (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

inculpate

'charge' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'rubbish clean it up' is the wordplay.
'rubbish' indicates an anagram (a poor quality or rubbish spelling of the letters).
'clean'+'it'+'up'='cleanitup'
'cleanitup' anagrammed gives 'INCULPATE'.

'and' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for inculpate that I've seen before include "Blame" , "Accuse" , "Incriminate" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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