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Sit with girl struggling to get skin cleaner (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

strigil

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'skin cleaner' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'sit with girl struggling' is the wordplay.
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'struggling' indicates anagramming the letters (the letters struggle or wriggle into a new form).
'sit' after 'girl' is 'girlsit'.
'girlsit' anagrammed gives 'STRIGIL'.

'to get' acts as a link.

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(Another definition for strigil that I've seen is " Scraper".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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