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Innocent lass, German girl, gets naked on leaving Germany (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ingenue

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

'german girl gets naked on leaving germany' is the wordplay.
'german girl' becomes 'Inge' (German girl's name).
'gets' becomes 'finds' (finding is a kind of getting).
'naked' says to take the centre (outside letters removed so centre is unclothed).
'on leaving germany' becomes 'ue' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
The middle letter of 'finds' is 'n'.
'inge'+'n'+'ue'='INGENUE'

'lass' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. It may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for ingenue that I've seen before include "young woman lacking experience" , "Inexperienced young woman" , "Artless innocent young girl on stage" , "Unsophisticated young female" , "Naive girl" .)

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