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Mouth making daughter terribly late (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

delta

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

'daughter terribly late' is the wordplay.
'daughter' becomes 'd' (genealogical abbreviation).
'terribly' indicates anagramming the letters.
'late' anagrammed gives 'elta'.
'd'+'elta'='DELTA'

'making' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for delta that I've seen before include "Foreign character" , "Fourth Greek letter? - area at river mouth" , "Divided river outlet" , "Eg, outlet of the Nile" , "Area of distributaries in a river basin" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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