Almost all the ladies, say, turning up for author (5)

I believe the answer is:

eliot

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'for author' is the definition.
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I can't explain the remainder of the clue.

(Other definitions for eliot that I've seen before include "T S . . . . . wrote ''The Waste Land''" , "thin material rejected" , "George - - (novelist)" , "Murder in the Cathedral author" , "Middlemarch author" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.

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