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Usual charge covering male director (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

accustomed

'usual' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'covering male director' is the wordplay.
'covering' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'male' becomes 'tom' (tom can mean a male cat).
'director' becomes 'accused' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'tom' going into 'accused' is 'ACCUSTOMED'.

'charge' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. It may belong to another bit of the clue.

(Other definitions for accustomed that I've seen before include "familiar" , "Used to" , "usual" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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