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Surround new visitor initially received by English club (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

environ

'surround' is the definition.
('environ' can be a synonym of 'surround')

'new visitor initially received by english club' is the wordplay.
'initially' indicates taking the first letters.
'received by' is an insertion indicator.
'english' becomes 'e' (abbreviation).
'club' becomes 'iron' (iron is a kind of club**).
The initial letters of 'new visitor' is 'nv'.
'e'+'iron'='eiron'
'nv' put inside 'eiron' is 'ENVIRON'.

(Another definition for environ that I've seen is " Ring".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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