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Woman very old to get married? It's not admitted (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

unavowed

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'not admitted' is the definition.
The answer and definition are not the same part of speech. However, past participle verbs and adjectives occasionally mean the same thing.

'woman very old to get married?' is the wordplay.
'woman' becomes 'una' ().
'very' becomes 'v' (abbreviation).
'old' becomes 'o' (common abbreviation eg in OE for Old English).
'to get married?' becomes 'wed' ('wed' can be a synonym of 'get married').
'una'+'v'+'o'+'wed'='UNAVOWED'

'it's' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for unavowed that I've seen before include "Not openly declared" , "not being admitted" , "secret" .)

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