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She’s out for the morning – what a pity! (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

shame

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'a pity' is the definition.
('shame' can be a synonym of 'pity')

'she's out for the morning what' is the wordplay.
'out' means to remove the last letter.
'for' says to put letters next to each other.
'the morning' becomes 'am'.
'what' becomes 'e' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'she' with its final letter taken away is 'sh'.
'sh'+'am'+'e'='SHAME'

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(Other definitions for shame that I've seen before include "Disgrace, ignominy" , "show up" , "Ignomony" , "disgraceful" , "Feeling of humiliation" .)

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