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Pure red tea stirred by a French man or woman (13)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

unadulterated

'pure' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)

'red tea stirred by a french man or woman' is the wordplay.
'stirred' indicates an anagram.
'by' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'a french' becomes 'un' ('a' in French).
'man or woman' becomes 'adult' (an adult person).
'red'+'tea'='redtea'
'redtea' anagrammed gives 'erated'.
'un'+'adult'='unadult'
'erated' after 'unadult' is 'UNADULTERATED'.

(Other definitions for unadulterated that I've seen before include "Total" , "Simple" , "not cut" , "Pure" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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