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Trick a woman into wrongly identifying stars (13)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

constellation

'stars' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'trick a woman into wrongly' is the wordplay.
'trick' becomes 'con' (I've seen this before).
'a woman' becomes 'stella' (**).
'wrongly' indicates anagramming the letters.
'into' anagrammed gives 'tion'.
'con'+'stella'+'tion'='CONSTELLATION'

'identifying' is the link.

(Other definitions for constellation that I've seen before include "Star group" , "Twins, perhaps" , "Formation of stars" , "Cassiopeia, for example" , "Twenty-five across for instance" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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