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South African Hill is Lulu's writer (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

berg

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'south african hill' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both natural objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?

'is lulu's writer' is the wordplay.
'is' becomes 'be'.
'lulu's writer' becomes 'rg' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'be'+'rg'='BERG'

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(Other definitions for berg that I've seen before include "Austrian composer of 12-tone music, d. 1935" , "Small version of ice mountain" , "Viennese composer" , "Mountain; Alban --, composer" , "ice in the drink" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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