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Trifle with pretty girl carrying a pistol (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bagatelle

'trifle' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'pretty girl carrying a pistol' is the wordplay.
'pretty girl' becomes 'belle' (I've seen this before).
'carrying' is an insertion indicator.
'pistol' becomes 'gat' (gat is a kind of pistol).
'a'+'gat'='agat'
'belle' placed around 'agat' is 'BAGATELLE'.

'with' is the link.

(Other definitions for bagatelle that I've seen before include "Something trivial" , "Trivial matter" , "no serious work" , "game at the tables?" , "trifling amount" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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