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Row
about
newspaper
backing
Panama?
(6)
Row about newspaper backing Panama? (6)
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The definition is at the end of the clue.
How the clue works
Look at Panama? — that's your definition, since a titfer is Cockney rhyming slang for a hat, and a Panama is indeed a type of hat. FT (the newspaper, Financial Times) is reversed — "backing" — to give TF, and then TIER (row) goes around it to give you TI-TF-ER.