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Promising support with Italian debts on paper (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

propitious

'promising' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'support with italian debts on paper' is the wordplay.
'support' becomes 'prop' (prop is a kind of support).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'italian' becomes 'it'.
'debts on paper' becomes 'ious'.
'prop'+'it'+'ious'='PROPITIOUS'

(Another definition for propitious that I've seen is " Of good omen".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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