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Governess coming to meet girl who's being brought up (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

duenna

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'governess' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'coming to meet girl who's being brought up' is the wordplay.
'coming' becomes 'due' (I've seen this in another clue).
'to meet girl who' becomes 'ann' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'being brought up' is a reversal indicator (in a down clue, letters go up).
'ann' in reverse letter order is 'nna'.
'due'+'nna'='DUENNA'

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(Other definitions for duenna that I've seen before include "Spanish chaperon or governess" , "(Spanish) chaperone" , "Woman chaperon in Hispanic countries" , "Chaperon to young girl in Spain" , "governess in Spain" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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