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She's a noted mother (3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

mae

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

'a noted mother' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'a' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'me' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for mae that I've seen before include "Woman" , "- - West, movie vamp" , "The first Hollywood blonde femme fatale, . . . West" , "Girl" , "more Scots" .)

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