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Beauty magazine, whichever way you look at it (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

elle

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'beauty magazine' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'whichever way you look at it' is the wordplay.
'whichever way you look' becomes 'ell' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'at' says to put letters next to each other.
'it' becomes 'e' ('e' can mean 'electronic' which is similar to 'IT').
'ell'+'e'='ELLE'

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(Other definitions for elle that I've seen before include "Is she in France" , "French word for 'she'" , "Fashion magazine - the French "She"" , "World's best-selling fashion magazine" , "Ms MacPherson, supermodel" .)

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