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Girl who dreamt original piece was stolen out of spite (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

alice

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'girl who dreamt original piece was stolen out of spite' is the definition.
'Alice' can be an answer for 'girl' (girl's nae). I'm not certain of the remainder of the definition.

'girl who' is the wordplay.
'girl' becomes 'Ali' (girl's name).
'who' becomes 'ce' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'ali'+'ce'='ALICE'

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(Other definitions for alice that I've seen before include "Miss Liddell" , "band" , "Wonderland visitor" , "Lewis Carroll's immortal girl" , "Celia changes into a different girl" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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