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Such a forced wedding heartless for Japanese ruler (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

shogun

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'japanese ruler' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'such a forced wedding heartless' is the wordplay.
'such a forced' becomes 'shog' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'wedding' becomes 'union' (I've seen this in another clue).
'heartless' suggests removing the centre.
'union' with its centre removed is 'un'.
'shog'+'un'='SHOGUN'

'for' is the link.

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(Other definitions for shogun that I've seen before include "Old Japanese hereditary army commander" , "No gush from this Japanese army commander" , "Dominant Japanese" , "Hereditary commander-in-chief in feudal Japan" , "Heredity commander of Japanese army" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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