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Shopkeeper's broken rare tile (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

retailer

'shopkeeper's' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'broken rare tile' is the wordplay.
'broken' indicates an anagram.
'rare'+'tile'='raretile'
'raretile' with letters rearranged gives 'RETAILER'.

(Other definitions for retailer that I've seen before include "Merchant" , "teller" , "story-teller" , "Store-keeper" , "One selling to public" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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