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To give a girl fur may leave her helpless! (7)

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I believe the answer is:

disable

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'leave her helpless' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'to give a girl fur' is the wordplay.
'to give' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'a girl' becomes 'Di' (short for Diane or Diana).
'fur' becomes 'sable' (sable is a kind of fur).
'di' next to 'sable' is 'DISABLE'.

'may' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for disable that I've seen before include "cripple" , "Stop working" , "Deactivate" , "Prevent" , "Put out of action" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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