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Grace Kelly ultimately supporting lover with tango (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

beauty

'grace' is the definition.
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'kelly ultimately supporting lover with tango' is the wordplay.
'ultimately' indicates one should take the final letters.
'supporting' says to put letters next to each other (in a down clue, some letters go below others).
'lover' becomes 'beau' (beau is a kind of lover).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'tango' becomes 'T' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
The last letter of 'kelly' is 'y'.
'beau'+'t'='beaut'
'y' put after 'beaut' is 'BEAUTY'.

(Other definitions for beauty that I've seen before include "Very fine specimen" , "See 40" , "Excellent specimen" , "very attractive lady" , "Good looks" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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