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Family from Pennsylvania decline to accept lease (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

parentage

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

'pennsylvania decline to accept lease' is the wordplay.
'pennsylvania' becomes 'pa'.
'decline' becomes 'age' (I've seen this in other clues).
'to accept' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'lease' becomes 'rent' ('rent' can be a synonym of 'lease').
'pa'+'age'='paage'
'paage' enclosing 'rent' is 'PARENTAGE'.

'from' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for parentage that I've seen before include "Ancestry" , "Extraction, descent" , "Who's your father (and mother)?" , "Family origins" , "results from birth" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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