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Whistle-blower's story about Archer? (8)

Ross

I think it could be either:

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telltale

'whistle-blower's' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'story about archer?' is the wordplay.
'story' becomes 'tale' ('tale' can be a synonym of 'story').
'about' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'archer?' becomes 'tell' (I've seen this before).
'tale' put after 'tell' is 'TELLTALE'.

(Other definitions for telltale that I've seen before include "Person who blabs, or something revealing" , "Informer - monitoring device" , "One spreads other people's secrets" , "Gossip-monger" , "Blabbermouth, snitch" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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