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Hemingway’s twin personal assistants (4)

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I believe the answer is:

papa

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'hemingway's' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'twin personal assistants' is the wordplay.
'twin' indicates the doubling of some letters.
'personal assistants' becomes 'pa' (this could be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
'pa' doubled is 'PAPA'.

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(Other definitions for papa that I've seen before include "one after Oscar" , "The old man" , "Mama's other half?" , "Dad" , "Father; letter P" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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