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Heartless mum accepting kind help for farm worker (8)

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I believe the answer is:

milkmaid

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'farm worker' is the definition.
(milkmaid is a kind of farm worker)

'heartless mum accepting kind help' is the wordplay.
'heartless mum' becomes 'mm' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'accepting' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'kind' becomes 'ilk' (ilk is a kind of kind).
'help' becomes 'aid' ('aid' can be a synonym of 'help').
'mm' going around 'ilk' is 'milkm'.
'milkm'+'aid'='MILKMAID'

'for' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for milkmaid that I've seen before include "Traditional dairy farm worker" , "old farm worker" , "Udder-manipulating girl?" , "8th" , "Female in dairy" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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