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Traveller cutting steak produces an instrument (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

trombone

'an instrument' is the definition.
(trombone is a kind of instrument)

'traveller cutting steak' is the wordplay.
'traveller' becomes 'rom' (individual belonging to the Romani people).
'cutting' is an insertion indicator (some letters cut their way into a word).
'steak' becomes 'tbone' (T-bone steak is an example).
'rom' placed within 'tbone' is 'TROMBONE'.

'produces' is the link.

(Other definitions for trombone that I've seen before include "Brass musical instrument with slide" , "Bfrass wind instrument with slide" , "play this" , "Blow me!" , "Brass instrument with sliding tubes" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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