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Six Romans and Romeo try celestial maiden? (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

virgo

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'celestial maiden?' is the definition.
'virgo' can be an answer for 'maiden?' (I've seen this before). I'm not certain of the 'celestial' bit.

'six romans and romeo try' is the wordplay.
'six romans' becomes 'vi' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'romeo' becomes 'r' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'try' becomes 'go' (go is a kind of try).
'vi'+'r'+'go'='VIRGO'

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(Other definitions for virgo that I've seen before include "Zodiacal sign" , "Maiden" , "House" , "A constellation, a cluster" , "Sixth sign of zodiac" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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