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She inherits Henry & Sons, encompassing Ireland (7)

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heiress

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'she inherits' is the definition.
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'henry sons encompassing ireland' is the wordplay.
'henry' becomes 'H' (symbol for the unit of electrical inductance).
'sons' becomes 'ss' (s is abbreviation for son).
'encompassing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'ireland' becomes 'eire' (synonyms).
'h'+'ss'='hss'
'hss' going around 'eire' is 'HEIRESS'.

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(Other definitions for heiress that I've seen before include "Female will beneficiary" , "Woman with good prospects" , "one who's succeeded" , "Woman likely to succeed?" , "Inheritrix" .)

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