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Ancestry will produce a row a long time afterwards (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

lineage

'ancestry' is the definition.
(I know that ancestry can be written as lineage)

'a row a long time afterwards' is the wordplay.
'a row' becomes 'line' (as in a row of things).
'a long time afterwards' becomes 'age' (I've seen this in other clues).
'line'+'age'='LINEAGE'

'will produce' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for lineage that I've seen before include "Family descent" , "Line of descendants of an ancestor" , "Pedigree, family tree" , "The strain" , "Direct descent" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Independent.
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