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Family lent a car's running wild (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ancestral

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

'lent a car's running wild' is the wordplay.
'running wild' indicates an anagram.
'lent'+'a'+'cars'='lentacars'
'lentacars' anagrammed gives 'ANCESTRAL'.

(Other definitions for ancestral that I've seen before include "Patrimonial" , "Belonging to the house" , "from old-timers" , "Relating to one's forebears" , "To do with forebears, say stately home" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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