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Admirer has diamonds, maybe, and gold! (6)

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I believe the answer is:

suitor

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'admirer' is the definition.
(suitor is a kind of admirer)

'diamonds maybe and gold' is the wordplay.
'diamonds maybe' becomes 'suit' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'gold' becomes 'or' ('or' is the heraldic name for gold).
'suit'+'or'='SUITOR'

'has' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for suitor that I've seen before include "Wooer" , "Man who is courting a woman" , "Prospective husband" , "He woos a maid" , "He pays court to a woman" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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