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Clean injured daughter's cut (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

lanced

'cut' is the definition.
(lancing is a kind of cutting)

'clean injured daughter's' is the wordplay.
'injured' indicates an anagram.
'daughter' becomes 'd' (genealogical abbreviation).
'clean' with letters rearranged gives 'lance'.
'lance'+'d'='LANCED'

(Other definitions for lanced that I've seen before include "Pierced surgically as with boil" , "Pierced with a knife" , "Cut open as surgeon did a boil" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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