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Not an all-American name for a girl (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

erica

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'girl' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'not an' is the wordplay.
'not' becomes 'eric' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'an' becomes 'a'.
'eric'+'a'='ERICA'

'all-american name for a' is the link.
This may not be right. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for erica that I've seen before include "Woman" , "Heath genus; girl's name" , "Plant of the heath genus" , "found on the moors" , "Shrubs" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Independent and The Globe and Mail.
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