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Italian noblewoman worried ancestors? Not right (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

contessa

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

'worried ancestors? not right' is the wordplay.
'worried' indicates an anagram.
'not' is a deletion indicator.
'right' becomes 'r' (common abbreviation).
'ancestors' with 'r' taken out is 'ancestos'.
'ancestos' anagrammed gives 'CONTESSA'.

(Other definitions for contessa that I've seen before include "noble foreign lady" , "European noble" , "foreign noblewoman" , "Italian aristocrat" , "Italian noblewoman" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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