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Victor, in grief, buys new game (5,5)

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I believe the answer is:

rugby fives

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

'victor in grief buys new' is the wordplay.
'victor' becomes 'V' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'new' is an anagram indicator.
'grief'+'buys'='griefbuys'
'griefbuys' is an anagram of 'rugbyfies'.
'v' put into 'rugbyfies' is 'RUGBY FIVES'.

(Another definition for rugby fives that I've seen is " game".)

I've seen this clue in The Times and The Sunday Times.
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