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He will tip off a woman (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ella

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'a woman' is the definition.

'he will tip off' is the wordplay.
'tip' indicates one should take the final letters.
'off' becomes 'la' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The final letters of 'he will' are 'el'.
'el'+'la'='ELLA'

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(Other definitions for ella that I've seen before include "Woman" , "Girl" , "Great late jazz singer . . . . Fitzgerald" , ".... Fitzgerald, late great jazz diva" , "- Wheeler Wilcox, US poet" .)

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