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Dramatic princess entertaining American president (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

reagan

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'american president' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'dramatic princess entertaining' is the wordplay.
'dramatic' becomes 'a' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'princess' becomes 'regan' (character in King Lear).
'entertaining' indicates putting letters inside.
'a' put inside 'regan' is 'REAGAN'.

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(Other definitions for reagan that I've seen before include "Former US president" , "Ronald . . . . . ., a film star and president" , "40th US president, Ronald" , "Former leader" , "US president lived in a strange RNA age" .)

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