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Overbearing woman to target man cunningly (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

termagant

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'overbearing woman' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'target man cunningly' is the wordplay.
'cunningly' indicates anagramming the letters (a cunning or tricky form of the letters).
'target'+'man'='targetman'
'targetman' anagrammed gives 'TERMAGANT'.

'to' is the link.

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(Other definitions for termagant that I've seen before include "she scolds" , "dragon" , "Witch" , "Aggressive, overbearing woman" , "querulous woman" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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