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Announced young woman is accomplished (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

made

'accomplished' is the definition.
(making is a kind of accomplishing)

'announced young woman' is the wordplay.
'announced' shows a homophone (sound like).
'young woman' becomes 'maid' (maid is a kind of young woman).
'maid' sounds like 'MADE'.

'is' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for made that I've seen before include "Produced" , "Created" , "Built" , "Performed" , "Forced" .)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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