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First public appearance of woman, extremely unfit (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

debut

'first public appearance' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'woman extremely unfit' is the wordplay.
'woman' becomes 'deb' (deb is a kind of woman).
'extremely' suggests removing the centre (only the extremes of the word are used).
'unfit' with its centre taken out is 'ut'.
'deb'+'ut'='DEBUT'

'of' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for debut that I've seen before include "Initial appearance" , "Introduction" , "First appearence as of society girl" , "Tubed (anag.)" , "The coming out of a society girl" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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