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Woman to try work that's dishonest (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dirty

'dishonest' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'woman to try work' is the wordplay.
'woman' becomes 'Di' (short for Diana).
'to' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'work' indicates anagramming the letters.
'try' anagrammed gives 'rty'.
'di'+'rty'='DIRTY'

'that's' is the link.

(Other definitions for dirty that I've seen before include "Muddy" , "producing a lot of fallout" , "A couple of days coupling?" , "1971 film with Clint Eastwood" , "Mucky" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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