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Saint seen in awfully rich bar with that woman (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

christopher

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'saint seen in awfully rich bar with that woman' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'rich bar with that woman' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
an anagram of 'rich' is 'chri' which is located in the answer.
'bar' could be 'stop' (bar can mean to stop or prevent) and 'stop' is found within the answer.
'woman' could be 'her' (her refers to a woman) and 'her' is located in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for christopher that I've seen before include "guy" , "A.A. Milne character" , "- Fry, Eng. dramatist" , "- Marlowe, sixteenth century English dramatist" , "Patron saint of travellers" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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