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Gets to dump women's footballer making you cross? (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

inswinger

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'cross?' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'gets to dump women's footballer making' is the wordplay.
'gets' becomes 'wins' (winning is a kind of getting).
'to dump' indicates named letters should be taken away.
'women's' becomes 'w's' (standard abbreviation).
'footballer making' becomes 'swinger' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'wins' with 'ws' taken away is 'in'.
'in'+'swinger'='INSWINGER'

'you' is the link.

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(Other definitions for inswinger that I've seen before include "ball from fast bowler" , "swerving delivery" , "moving ball" , "delivery curling through air" , "Swerving ball" .)

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