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Provide for one’s children (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

issue

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'children' is the definition.
(issue can mean someone's offspring)

'provide for one's' is the wordplay.
'provide' becomes 'sue' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'for' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'one's' becomes 'i's' (Roman numeral).
'sue' after 'is' is 'ISSUE'.

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(Other definitions for issue that I've seen before include "Topic; give out" , "Matter of contention" , "Offspring or edition" , "Sprogs" , "Children; topic for debate" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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