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Potential Irish windfall for darling Bill

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sweet william

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'potential irish windfall' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't see how they can define each other.

'darling bill' is the wordplay.
'darling' becomes 'sweet' (I've seen this before).
'bill' becomes 'william' (I've seen this before**).
'sweet'+'william'='SWEET-WILLIAM'

'for' is the link.

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(Other definitions for sweet william that I've seen before include "Flowering plant - Prince at sixteen?" , "Eurasian plant with fragrant flowers" , "description Violet Elizabeth wouldn't have recognised?" , "Plant with clusters of coloured flowers - WWI allies met (anag)" , "Flower (nice boy!)" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times.
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