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History of a girl taking meals without me (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

annals

'history' is the definition.
(annals is a kind of history)

'a girl taking meals without me' is the wordplay.
'a girl' becomes 'ann' (woman's name).
'taking' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'without' is a deletion indicator.
'meals' with 'me' taken away is 'als'.
'ann'+'als'='ANNALS'

'of' is the link.

(Other definitions for annals that I've seen before include "Historical records" , "Records of past events" , "History of events year by year" , "Chronological records, yearbooks" , "Registers" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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