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Wise man has a victory, daughter gets attacked (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

savaged

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'attacked' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'wise man has a victory daughter' is the wordplay.
'wise man' becomes 'sage' (sage is a kind of wise man).
'has' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'victory' becomes 'v'.
'daughter' becomes 'd' (genealogical abbreviation).
'a'+'v'='av'
'sage' going around 'av' is 'savage'.
'savage'+'d'='SAVAGED'

'gets' is the link.

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I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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