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She came to be looked up to (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

rose

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'looked up to' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with human feelings as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?

'she came to' is the wordplay.
'she' becomes 'ros'.
'came to' becomes 'e' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'ros'+'e'='ROSE'

'be' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for rose that I've seen before include "Garden flower" , "mounted" , "Herb - girl's name(s)" , "Flower - girl - got up" , "18 [ROSE]" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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