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With broken limb, the scaffolder is a cheat (13)

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I believe the answer is:

thimblerigger

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

'with broken limb the scaffolder' is the wordplay.
'with' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'broken' is an anagram indicator.
'scaffolder' becomes 'rigger' (I've seen this before).
'limb' anagrammed gives 'imbl'.
'imbl' put within 'the' is 'thimble'.
'thimble'+'rigger'='THIMBLERIGGER'

'is' is the link.

(Another definition for thimblerigger that I've seen is " Cheat".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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