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Still keeping skirts for lady diarist (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

evelyn

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'diarist' is the definition.
(John Evelyn 17th Century diarist)

'still keeping skirts for lady' is the wordplay.
'still keeping skirts' becomes 'eve' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'for' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'lady' becomes 'Lyn'.
'eve'+'lyn'='EVELYN'

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(Other definitions for evelyn that I've seen before include "London diarist" , "John --, gardener and diarist" , "Novelist . . . . . . Waugh wrote 'Brideshead Revisited'" , "- Waugh, English author (Scoop)" , "man?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times and The Sunday Times.
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