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Published Sons and Daughter (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

issued

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'published' is the definition.
('issue' can be a synonym of 'publish')

'sons and daughter' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'sons' could be 'ss' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'ss' is found in the answer.
'daughter' could be 'd' and 'd' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for issued that I've seen before include "Circulated, a statement perhaps" , "Published and came forth" , "Brought out a publication" , "Put out (a publication)" , "Published, brought out" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times and the Irish Times (Crosaire).
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