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[watersa]

Girl's brief victory against love - round of applause! 5 letters and I have U?O?O though I'm not sure of them.

Can anyone help me? I can't get it and it's the last one.

Thanks very much

[Canary42]

bravo

[watersa]

thanks. I thought of that but cant see why it's Girl's brief (bra?) and am gutted because it means 2 other answers are wrong. Can you parse it please.

 

                                   

[Canary42]

I did have trouble convincing myself of my parsing (😀), but

broke it down to :-

Girl's brief victory = BRA (this being the weak part)

against = V

love = O

Not entirely satisfactory I know, but it more or less fitted the definition round of applause.  I have yet to solve any of the three crossing clues (4,11, and 13 across), so I may have to revise this answer. 

[Canary42]

Ooops, eyesight lettting me down, it's 6, 11 and 13 of course.

[FleshpotsOfDevon]

SALVO