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Unusual red olive is a really bad one (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

evildoer

'a really bad one' is the definition.
(a bad person)

'unusual red olive' is the wordplay.
'unusual' is an anagram indicator.
'red'+'olive'='redolive'
'redolive' anagrammed gives 'EVILDOER'.

'is' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for evildoer that I've seen before include "sinner" , "Rode live over morally bad person" , "One who commits very bad deeds" , "Wicked person" , "'baddie'?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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