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Writing material getting no spill, record protected (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

notepaper

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

'record protected' is the wordplay.
'record' becomes 'note' (note is a kind of record).
'protected' becomes 'paper' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'note'+'paper'='NOTEPAPER'

'getting no spill' acts as a link.
This may not be right. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for notepaper that I've seen before include "Letter-writing sheet" , "Correspondence on this" , "perhaps, a contributor to writer's block" , "What a correspondent may use" , "Whereon Handel may have written" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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