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Northern Irish perhaps lifting article that’s divine (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

angelic

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'divine' is the definition.
(like an angel)

'northern irish perhaps lifting article' is the wordplay.
'northern' shows that the letters should be reversed in order (in a down clue, letters go up or 'north').
'irish' becomes 'cil' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'perhaps' becomes 'eg' (for example).
'lifting' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'article' becomes 'an' (indefinite article).
'cil'+'eg'='cileg'
'cileg' in reverse letter order is 'gelic'.
'gelic' after 'an' is 'ANGELIC'.

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(Other definitions for angelic that I've seen before include "Divine" , "sweet-natured too" , "Heavenly - entrancing" , "Very well behaved" , "I glance (anag.)" .)

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