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Girl’s deceit taking Charlie in (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

lassie

'girl's' is the definition.
(lassie is a kind of girl)

'deceit taking charlie in' is the wordplay.
'deceit' becomes 'lie' (I've seen this in other clues).
'taking charlie' becomes 'ass' (both can mean a foolish person. I am not sure about the 'taking' bit.).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'lie' going around 'ass' is 'LASSIE'.

(Other definitions for lassie that I've seen before include "TV/film dog" , "TV series/film dog" , "Scots girl - film dog" , "Young Scottish girl or Hollywood lost dog" , "girl found" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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