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Destroyed a Parisian serving-girl verbally? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

unmade

'destroyed' is the definition.

'a parisian serving-girl verbally?' is the wordplay.
'a parisian' becomes 'un'.
'serving girl' becomes 'maid' (I've seen this before).
'verbally?' shows a homophone (sound like) (I've seen 'verbally' mean this).
'maid' sounds like 'made'.
'un'+'made'='UNMADE'

(Other definitions for unmade that I've seen before include "far from tidy bed like this" , "not in production" , "Like a bed just vacated" , "Beds could be so" , "(Of bed) in disarray" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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