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Female from Reading regularly heading for Andover (4)

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I believe the answer is:

edna

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'female' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'reading regularly heading for andover' is the wordplay.
'regularly' indicates alternate letters (regularly take one letter, leave next etc.).
'heading for' suggests taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'andover' is 'a'.
The alternate letters of 'reading' are 'edn'.
'edn'+'a'='EDNA'

'from' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for edna that I've seen before include "___ O'Brien, Irish novelist, b. 1930" , "Famous dame" , "- O'Brien, Ir. novelist" , "Girl for Dane" , "Female name" .)

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