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Old girl heading for disaster with assorted males (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

damsel

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'old girl' is the definition.
'damsel' can be an answer for 'girl'. I'm not sure about the 'old' bit.

'heading for disaster with assorted males' is the wordplay.
'heading for' says to take the initial letters.
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'assorted' indicates an anagram.
The first letter of 'disaster' is 'd'.
'males' with letters rearranged gives 'amsel'.
'd'+'amsel'='DAMSEL'

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(Other definitions for damsel that I've seen before include "Girl - type of fly" , "Young woman (often in distress)" , "An old girl, often in distress" , "Maiden (poetic)" , "Someone in distress?" .)

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