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Yearlong travels around Italy for soldier (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

legionary

'soldier' is the definition.
(legionary is a kind of soldier)

'yearlong travels around italy' is the wordplay.
'travels' is an anagram indicator.
'around' indicates putting letters inside.
'italy' becomes 'i'.
'yearlong' with letters rearranged gives 'legonary'.
'legonary' placed around 'i' is 'LEGIONARY'.

'for' is the link.

(Another definition for legionary that I've seen is " soldier".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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