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American hair-style for Monsieur? (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hiram

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'american' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'hair-style for monsieur?' is the wordplay.
'style' indicates anagramming the letters (style can mean to shape or design).
'for' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'monsieur?' becomes 'm' ().
'hair' is an anagram of 'hira'.
'hira'+'m'='HIRAM'

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(Other definitions for hiram that I've seen before include "He supplied temple builders" , "I gave Solomon materials for Temple" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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