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Regularly entice female artist (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

etcher

'artist' is the definition.
(etcher is a kind of artist)

'regularly entice female' is the wordplay.
'regularly' means one should take alternating letters (regularly take one letter, leave next etc.).
'female' becomes 'her' (I've seen this before).
The alternating letters of 'entice' are 'etc'.
'etc'+'her'='ETCHER'

(Other definitions for etcher that I've seen before include "One with incisive career" , "one who uses acid" , "Maybe she makes engravings" , "Artist using acid on metal" , "One sharply scores" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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