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Renovated spindle daughter finds brilliant (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

splendid

'brilliant' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'renovated spindle daughter' is the wordplay.
'renovated' is an anagram indicator.
'daughter' becomes 'd'.
'spindle' anagrammed gives 'splendi'.
'splendi'+'d'='SPLENDID'

'finds' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for splendid that I've seen before include "Wonderful" , "Very fine, quite glorioous" , "Excellent, magnificent" , "Wicked" , "Superb" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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