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Listen, lady's possessing advanced knowledge (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hearken

'listen' is the definition.
(hearkening is a kind of listening)

'lady's possessing advanced knowledge' is the wordplay.
'lady' becomes 'her' (her refers to a woman).
'possessing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'advanced' becomes 'a' (abbreviation).
'knowledge' becomes 'ken' (ken is a kind of knowledge).
'her' enclosing 'a' is 'hear'.
'hear'+'ken'='HEARKEN'

(Other definitions for hearken that I've seen before include "Listen in old way" , "Old attend" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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