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Young woman expecting to be wasted (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

misspent

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

'young woman expecting' is the wordplay.
'young woman' becomes 'miss' (title for a young woman).
'expecting' becomes 'pent' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'miss'+'pent'='MISSPENT'

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(Other definitions for misspent that I've seen before include "Dissipated" , "having used money unwisely" , "youth? Sort of" , "troublesome youth?" , "wasted away?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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