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Shop with endless lines in bowls? (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

delivers

'bowls?' is the definition.
(to bowl is to deliver in cricket)

'shop with endless lines' is the wordplay.
'shop' becomes 'deli' (deli is a kind of shop).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'endless' means to remove the last letter.
'lines' becomes 'verse' (I've seen this before).
'verse' with its last letter taken off is 'vers'.
'deli'+'vers'='DELIVERS'

'in' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for delivers that I've seen before include "Hands over or rescues" , "Brings something to a destination" , "Gives, a speech say" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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