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Teresa grabbing Romeo's hair (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tress

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'hair' is the definition.
(tress is a kind of hair)

'teresa grabbing romeo's' is the wordplay.
'teresa' becomes 'tess' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'grabbing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'romeo' becomes 'R' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'tess' enclosing 'r' is 'TRESS'.

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(Other definitions for tress that I've seen before include "Braid of hair" , "Long piece of hair" , "is a bit of a shock" , "Rests (anag.)" , "Obsolete support" .)

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