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Girl with a shirt that is a shade of red (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

claret

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'that is a shade of red' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'girl with a shirt' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'girl' could be 'clare' and 'clare' is found within the answer.
'shirt' could be 't' (as in a T-shirt) and 't' is found within the answer.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for claret that I've seen before include "French wine" , "Deep purplish colour" , "Type of red wine" , "Red Bourdeaux wine" , "Deep purplish-red" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Independent.
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