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Female nurse headed to give assistance (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

enid

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'give assistance' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'female nurse headed' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'nurse' could be 'en' (abbreviation for enrolled nurse) and 'en' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'id' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

'to' is the link.

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(Other definitions for enid that I've seen before include "Dine out on this girl's name also" , "- Blyton, children's writer" , "Geraint's loved one" , "Woman" , "Writer of children's books, d. 1968" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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