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Stars with Italian lawyer? (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

andromeda

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'stars' is the definition.
(Andromeda is a constellation)

'with italian lawyer?' is the wordplay.
'with' becomes 'and'.
'italian' becomes 'rome' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'lawyer?' becomes 'DA' (abbreviation for District Attorney).
'and'+'rome'+'da'='ANDROMEDA'

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(Other definitions for andromeda that I've seen before include "Ethiopian princess" , "Galaxy nearest ours" , "star group" , "Object in 21 [SPACE]" , "Constellation with galaxy" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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