Novel her aunt and daughter disentangle (8)

I believe the answer is:

unthread

'disentangle' is the definition.
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'novel her aunt and daughter' is the wordplay.
'novel' indicates anagramming the letters.
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'daughter' becomes 'd'.
'her'+'aunt'='heraunt'
'heraunt' is an anagram of 'unthrea'.
'unthrea'+'d'='UNTHREAD'

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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