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Goddess, Greek god and Aesop in the middle? (3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

eos

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'goddess' is the definition.
(I know that Eos is a goddess)

'greek god and aesop in the middle?' is the wordplay.
'greek god' becomes 'eo' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'in the middle?' says to take the centre (I've seen 'in the middle' mean this).
The central letter of 'aesop' is 's'.
'eo'+'s'='EOS'

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(Other definitions for eos that I've seen before include "Greek god of the dawn" , "Greek dawn goddess" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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