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Wrapping that woman's mother, edges of towel warming (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

thermal

'warming' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'wrapping that woman's mother edges of towel' is the wordplay.
'wrapping' is an insertion indicator.
'that woman's' becomes 'her' (belonging to a woman).
'mother' becomes 'ma' (Ma is another word for mother or mum).
'edges of' means to remove the middle letters.
'towel' with its middle taken out is 'tl'.
'her'+'ma'='herma'
'herma' inserted within 'tl' is 'THERMAL'.

(Other definitions for thermal that I've seen before include "Warming" , "Type of air current" , "Concerned with high temperature" , "Warm like winter woollies" , "Column of rising air used by gliders" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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