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Man with two names? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

alfred

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'man with two names?' is the definition.
'Alfred' can be an answer for 'man'. I'm not certain of the 'with two names?' bit.

'man with two names?' is the wordplay.
'man' becomes 'Alf' (short for Alfred).
'with two names?' becomes 'red' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'alf'+'red'='ALFRED'

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(Other definitions for alfred that I've seen before include "A great king of Wessex, d. 899" , "Chap" , "Saxon king" , "King of Wessex, known as "the Great"" , "Great English king" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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