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Time to join a composer, a fellow who organises the trip? (6,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

travel agent

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'time to join a composer a fellow who organises the trip?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how they can define each other.

'time to join a composer a fellow' is the wordplay.
'time' becomes 't' (abbreviation).
'to join a composer' becomes 'ravel' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'fellow' becomes 'gent' (synonyms).
't'+'ravel'+'a'+'gent'='TRAVEL AGENT'

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(Other definitions for travel agent that I've seen before include "Trip organiser" , "Dealer in air tickets, package holidays etc" , "One arranging holidays" , "One who makes arrangements for holiday makers" , "Holiday seller" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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