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Point applied to country girl (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

frances

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'girl' is the definition.

'point applied to country' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'point' could be 's' (South) and 's' is found within the answer.
'applied' could be 'ran' (running is a kind of applying) and 'ran' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for frances that I've seen before include "Name" , "Girl" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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