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She lives on air, partly! (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

iris

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

'lives on air partly' is the wordplay.
'lives' becomes 'is' ('be' can be a synonym of 'live').
'on' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'air partly' becomes 'ir' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'is' put after 'ir' is 'IRIS'.

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(Other definitions for iris that I've seen before include "who keeps pupil in?" , "Flower - rainbow" , "Circular coloured membrane in the eye" , "- - Murdoch, novelist" , "Eye diaphragm" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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