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Innocent sort of genie has not turned around (7)

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I believe the answer is:

ingenue

'innocent' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'sort of genie has not turned around' is the wordplay.
'sort of' is an anagram indicator.
'has' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'not' becomes 'un' (prefix meaning 'not').
'turned around' says the letters should be written backwards.
'un' back-to-front is 'nu'.
'genie' is an anagram of 'ingee'.
'ingee' enclosing 'nu' is 'INGENUE'.

(Other definitions for ingenue that I've seen before include "She's artless" , "Naive female" , "Genuine sort of young actress" , "Innocent young woman in play" , "Artless innocent young girl on stage" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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