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Someone able to translate emigrant's novel (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

germanist

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'someone able to translate' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'emigrant's novel' is the wordplay.
'novel' is an anagram indicator (letters in a new or novel order).
'emigrants' with letters rearranged gives 'GERMANIST'.

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(Another definition for germanist that I've seen is " Language specialist".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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