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Elderly female imprisoned by redhead literary villain (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

goldfinger

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'literary villain' is the definition.
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'elderly female imprisoned by redhead' is the wordplay.
'elderly' becomes 'old' (similar in meaning).
'female' becomes 'f' (common abbreviation).
'imprisoned by' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'redhead' becomes 'ginger' (I've seen this in another clue).
'old'+'f'='oldf'
'oldf' going into 'ginger' is 'GOLDFINGER'.

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(Other definitions for goldfinger that I've seen before include "movie villain" , "Villain in film" , "Screen villain" , "Flick" , "Eponymous James Bond villain" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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