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Truthful, female over material (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

factual

'truthful' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'female over material' is the wordplay.
'female' becomes 'f' (common abbreviation).
'over' says to put letters next to each other (in a down clue, some letters go over others).
'material' becomes 'actual' (both can mean real).
'f'+'actual'='FACTUAL'

(Other definitions for factual that I've seen before include "Related to the truth" , "Based on real events" , "Based on things known to be true" , "True-to-life" , "Based on reality" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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