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Agnes gets home with heavy heart (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

nesta

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'agnes' is the definition.
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'home with heavy heart' is the wordplay.
'home' becomes 'nest' (a bird's home).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'heart' means to look at the middle letters.
The middle letter of 'heavy' is 'a'.
'nest'+'a'='NESTA'

'gets' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for nesta that I've seen before include "woman" , "girl" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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