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Woman's relative mostly sup­ported by daughter alone (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

unassisted

'alone' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'woman's relative mostly supported by daughter' is the wordplay.
'woman's' becomes 'unas'.
'relative mostly supported by daughter' becomes 'sisted' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'unas'+'sisted'='UNASSISTED'

(Other definitions for unassisted that I've seen before include "Getting no help" , "Without help" , "Solo" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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