The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word REBECCA
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More clues leading to the result REBECCA
- Du Maurier book with short revolutionary chapters — ace!
- Dried beef, cocoa, regularly, for girl
- She’s on live — with little volume at start of act
- Mr Expert overturned, caught by being captured rioter?
- Novel touching and useless because without chapter
- Girl runs along with a bunch of keys
- Fiddle around in piece of Gothic fiction
- Novel about British deposing leader in holy city
- Novel about second wife being turned queen by dictating Boris?
- Care to wander round British city in novel
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