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Screen request to get married first (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

mask

'screen' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'request to get married first' is the wordplay.
'request' becomes 'ask' ('ask' can be a synonym of 'request').
'to get' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'first' says to take the initial letters.
The first letter of 'married' is 'm'.
'ask' after 'm' is 'MASK'.

(Other definitions for mask that I've seen before include "False face" , "Face-covering" , "Cover for the face" , "Face-cover" , "Facial disguise" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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