Prince with monsters making advances (10)

I believe the answer is:

progresses

'advances' is the definition.
(I know this)

'prince with monsters' is the wordplay.
'prince' becomes 'pr'.
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'monsters' becomes 'ogresses' (I have seen 'Female monsters ' mean 'ogresses' so perhaps 'monsters' could also mean 'ogresses').
'pr'+'ogresses'='PROGRESSES'

'making' is the link.

(Another definition for progresses that I've seen is " makes headway".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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