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Female with skills creates story (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fable

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'story' is the definition.
(I know that fable is a type of story)

'female with skills' is the wordplay.
'female with' becomes 'f' (I've seen this in other clues).
'skills' becomes 'able' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'f'+'able'='FABLE'

'creates' is the link.

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(Other definitions for fable that I've seen before include "It's not true" , "Aesop story" , "Short moral story" , "Aesop's story?" , "there may be a moral to it" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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