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A Turner in detailed colour article (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tina

'a turner' is the definition.
(Tina Turner, famous singer)

'detailed colour article' is the wordplay.
'detailed' means to remove the last letter (the word must be end-less or 'de-tailed').
'colour' becomes 'tint' (tint is a kind of colour).
'article' becomes 'a' (indefinite article).
'tint' with its final letter removed is 'tin'.
'tin'+'a'='TINA'

'in' acts as a link.

(Another definition for tina that I've seen is " Ain't this a girl?".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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