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She'll always give a chap a light (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

vesta

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'chap a light' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?

'she'll always give a' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'a' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'vest' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for vesta that I've seen before include "Asteroid; goddess; match" , "Stave (anag.)" , "Hearth goddess; a match" , "Roman goddess; match" , "Roman goddess of the hearth" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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