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Charlotte perhaps meeting sick war hero (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

churchill

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'charlotte' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?

'meeting sick war hero' is the wordplay.
'meeting' says to put letters next to each other.
'sick' becomes 'ill' (synonyms).
'war hero' becomes 'church' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'ill' put after 'church' is 'CHURCHILL'.

'perhaps' is the link.

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(Other definitions for churchill that I've seen before include "Wartime PM" , "Winston . . . . . . . . ., English PM war leader" , "Former statesman" , "PM and Nobel prize winner" , "Old leader" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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