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One advising young woman to drop married name (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

aide

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'one advising young woman to drop' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

'married name' is the wordplay.
'married' becomes 'ai' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'name' becomes 'De'.
'ai'+'de'='AIDE'

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(Other definitions for aide that I've seen before include "one helping" , "a help" , "Leader's assistant" , "Military officer acting as assistant" , "Confidential assistant or advisor" .)

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