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Superior Theresa, fantastic in role (7,5)

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I believe the answer is:

streets ahead

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'superior' is the definition.
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'theresa fantastic in role' is the wordplay.
'fantastic' indicates an anagram (a fantastic or improbable ordering of the letters).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'role' becomes 'stead' (stead is a kind of role).
'theresa' with letters rearranged gives 'reetsah'.
'reetsah' going into 'stead' is 'STREETS AHEAD'.

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(Other definitions for streets ahead that I've seen before include "much better" , "vastly superior" , "right at the front" , "A long way in front" , "Greatly superior" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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