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She's very keen to get a stage part (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

madge

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'she's' is the definition.

'keen to get a stage part' is the wordplay.
'keen' becomes 'mad' (both can mean enthusiastic about).
'to get a stage part' becomes 'ge' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'mad'+'ge'='MADGE'

'very' is the link.

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(Other definitions for madge that I've seen before include "Madonna's nickname" , "girl" .)

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