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Gold and diamonds enthralling single female, leading to opening (7)

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I believe the answer is:

orifice

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'opening' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'gold and diamonds enthralling single female leading' is the wordplay.
'gold' becomes 'or' ('or' is the heraldic name for gold).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'diamonds' becomes 'ice' (slang term for diamonds).
'enthralling' is an insertion indicator.
'single female leading' becomes 'fi' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'ice' going around 'fi' is 'ifice'.
'or'+'ifice'='ORIFICE'

'to' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for orifice that I've seen before include "Hole in the head, perhaps?" , "Bodily hole" , "Bodily opening, mouth of cavity" , "provided by gold and diamonds" , "8 [OPENING]" .)

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