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Daughter of Loki has some men and a woman (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

helen

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'a woman' is the definition.

'daughter of loki has some men and' is the wordplay.
'daughter of loki' becomes 'hel' (I've seen this in another clue).
'has' says to put letters next to each other.
'some men' becomes 'e' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'and' becomes 'n' (common abbreviation for 'and').
'hel'+'e'+'n'='HELEN'

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(Other definitions for helen that I've seen before include "Woman who launched a thousand ships?" , "Beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda who was abducted by Paris" , "Famous classical beauty" , "legendary Greek figure" , "The Greek army sailed to Troy to get her back" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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