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Woman of the outer Sahara (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sara

'woman' is the definition.
(woman's name)

'the outer sahara' is the wordplay.
'the outer' means to remove the middle letters.
'sahara' with its middle removed is 'SARA'.

'of' acts as a link.

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