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Discovery of caring female replacing male (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

finding

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'discovery' is the definition.
(I know that finding is a type of discovery)

'caring female replacing male' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'female' could be 'di' (short for Diana) and 'di' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'of' acts as a link.

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(Another definition for finding that I've seen is " Coming across".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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