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Seed carried in rickety barge — one making lots of noise! (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bagpiper

'one making lots of noise' is the definition.
(someone playing the bagpipes)

'seed carried in rickety barge' is the wordplay.
'seed' becomes 'pip' (as in a fruit pip).
'carried in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'rickety' indicates an anagram.
'barge' is an anagram of 'bager'.
'pip' placed inside 'bager' is 'BAGPIPER'.

(Other definitions for bagpiper that I've seen before include "One blows out air" , "(Scottish) musician" , "Scots musician" , "Player of traditional Scottish musical instrument" , "Pibroch player" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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