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Lie in tangle with lady in perfect world (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ideally

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'lie in tangle with lady in perfect world' is the definition.
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'lie in tangle with lady' is the wordplay.
'in tangle with' indicates anagramming the letters.
'lie' with its letters mixed up with 'lady' can make 'IDEALLY'.

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(Other definitions for ideally that I've seen before include "Lay idle (anag)" , "In the best of all possible worlds" , "In the most perfect way" , "In a perfect world, the best possible situation" , "for preference" .)

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