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Traveller to drive back, lukewarm about PO (5,4)

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I believe the answer is:

marco polo

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'traveller' is the definition.
(13th-century explorer)

'drive back lukewarm about po' is the wordplay.
'drive' becomes 'ram' (RAM drive on a computer).
'back' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'lukewarm' becomes 'colo' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'ram' back-to-front is 'mar'.
'colo' going around 'po' is 'copolo'.
'mar'+'copolo'='MARCO POLO'

'to' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for marco polo that I've seen before include "Old travelling salesman" , "traveller in East" , "Merchant of Venice" , "Venetian adventurer" , "Venetian travel writer, who may (or may not) have served Kublai Khan, d. 1324" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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