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Coming into a little money benefits youngster (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

adolescent

'youngster' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'coming into a little money benefits' is the wordplay.
'coming into' is an insertion indicator.
'little money' becomes 'cent' (I've seen this before).
'benefits' becomes 'doles' (dole can informally mean a government benefit).
'a'+'cent'='acent'
'acent' enclosing 'doles' is 'ADOLESCENT'.

(Other definitions for adolescent that I've seen before include "Immature" , "Person in child-adult transition" , "juvenile" , "Developing" , "Youngster" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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