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Girl with small bears (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

carries

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'bears' is the definition.
('carry' can be a synonym of 'bear')

'girl with small' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'girl' could be 'carri' and 'carri' is present in the answer.
'small' could be 's' (abbreviation - e.g. clothes size) and 's' is present in the answer.
A single letter 'e' remains which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?

(Another definition for carries that I've seen is " Bears".)

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