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Watch the Queen on tele, surprisingly a tool for making holes (9)

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I believe the answer is:

eyeleteer

'a tool for making holes' is the definition.
(a eyeleteer is a tool for making eyelets)

'watch the queen on tele surprisingly' is the wordplay.
'watch' becomes 'eye' (eye can mean to watch or look at).
'the queen' becomes 'ER' (Elizabeth Regina).
'on' says to put letters next to each other.
'surprisingly' is an anagram indicator (a surprising ordering of the letters).
'tele' anagrammed gives 'lete'.
'er' put after 'lete' is 'leteer'.
'eye'+'leteer'='EYELETEER'

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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