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Standing stone figures abandoned by European (6)

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status

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'standing stone' is the definition.
'status' can be an answer for 'standing' (I've seen this before). I'm not sure about the 'stone' bit.

'figures abandoned by european' is the wordplay.
'figures' becomes 'statues' (statue is a kind of figure).
'abandoned by' is a deletion indicator.
'european' becomes 'E' (abbreviation e.g. EU).
'statues' with 'e' taken out is 'STATUS'.

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(Other definitions for status that I've seen before include "Social position or grade" , "Situation as it was before" , "Class" , "Position eg in society" , "degree" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Mail.
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