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Joke about girl being strictly moral (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

puritan

'strictly moral' is the definition.

'joke about girl' is the wordplay.
'joke' becomes 'pun' (pun is a type of joke).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'girl' becomes 'rita' (woman's name).
'pun' going around 'rita' is 'PURITAN'.

'being' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for puritan that I've seen before include "Upright" , "Prude" , "Person of censorious moral beliefs" , "Killjoy" , "Member of a group of English Protestants who thought that the Protestant Reformation was incomplete" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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