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Vocal strain for female singer? (10)

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I believe the answer is:

songstress

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'female singer?' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'vocal strain' is the wordplay.
'vocal' becomes 'song' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'strain' becomes 'stress' (stress is a kind of strain).
'song'+'stress'='SONGSTRESS'

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(Other definitions for songstress that I've seen before include "Soprano perhaps" , "Woman making up the numbers" , "performer" , "coloratura perhaps" , "Female singer" .)

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