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The perfect person to act like? (4,5)

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I believe the answer is:

role model

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'the perfect person to act like?' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'the perfect person to act' is the wordplay.
'the perfect person' becomes 'model' (model is a kind of person. I am not sure about the 'perfect' bit.).
'to' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'act' becomes 'role' (role is a kind of act).
'model' put after 'role' is 'ROLE-MODEL'.

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(Other definitions for role model that I've seen before include "exemplary type" , "One whose example should be followed" , "someone to look up to" , "One looked up to" , "someone worthy of imitation" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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