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New head of company is human so far (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

inasmuch

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'far' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.

'new head of company is human' is the wordplay.
'new' indicates an anagram.
'head of' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'company' is 'c'.
'c'+'is'+'human'='cishuman'
'cishuman' is an anagram of 'INASMUCH'.

'so' is the link.

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(Other definitions for inasmuch that I've seen before include "'- as' means 'to the extent that'" , "to such a degree" , "In so far as, because" , "Insofar as, as Munich might be" .)

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