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Persuade escort to entertain foreign nobleman (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

seduce

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'persuade' is the definition.
(seducing is a kind of persuading)

'escort to entertain foreign nobleman' is the wordplay.
'escort' becomes 'see' ('see' can be a synonym of 'escort').
'to entertain' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'foreign nobleman' becomes 'duc' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'see' going around 'duc' is 'SEDUCE'.

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(Other definitions for seduce that I've seen before include "mislead" , "Charm - deprave" , "Lead astray, tempt" , "Persuade to be false" , "Debauch" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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