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Naive admission of older age (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

immature

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'naive' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)

'admission of older age' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'age' could be 'mature' (synonyms) and 'mature' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'im' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for immature that I've seen before include "Not yet fully-developed" , "Not fully ripe or developed" , "Undeveloped - unripe" , "Not yet fully grown or developed" , "Underdeveloped - childish" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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