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Female with a line prepared about celebrity makes flawed beginning (5,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

false start

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'flawed beginning' is the definition.
(flawed or incorrect beginning)

'female with a line prepared about celebrity' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'female' could be 'tart' (tart is a kind of female) and 'tart' is located in the answer.
'a' is present in the answer.
'line' could be 'l' (used when specifying particular lines from a poem) and 'l' is located in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'makes' is the link.

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(Other definitions for false start that I've seen before include "Unsuccessful beginning" , "may lead to total recall" , "In which someone jumps the gun" , "In which runner is seen to have jumped the gun" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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