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Girl wraps one in torn material (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

alice

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'torn material' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'girl wraps one in' is the wordplay.
'girl wraps' becomes 'li' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'one' becomes 'ace' (ace has a value of one in some card games).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'li' put into 'ace' is 'ALICE'.

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(Other definitions for alice that I've seen before include "Immortal girl created by Lewis Carroll" , "Girl famed for Wonderland adventures" , "Girl in literary Wonderland" , "Wondergirl" , "A Town Like - - (novel/film)" .)

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