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Miss suggestion American imports wrought iron (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

signorina

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

'suggestion american imports wrought iron' is the wordplay.
'suggestion' becomes 'sign' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'american' becomes 'a' (common abbreviation - e.g. in organisation names).
'imports' is an insertion indicator (inserted letters are imported).
'wrought' indicates an anagram (wrought means beaten or shaped into form).
'sign'+'a'='signa'
'iron' anagrammed gives 'nori'.
'signa' placed around 'nori' is 'SIGNORINA'.

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(Other definitions for signorina that I've seen before include "Miss Italy?" , "Young lady from Rome?" , "Italian girl revealed" , "Italian equivalent of "mademoiselle"" , "Italian miss" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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