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Italian
dignitary
delivers
Elon
Musk’s
baby?
(4)
Italian dignitary delivers Elon Musk’s baby? (4)
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The whole clue is the definition (& lit or double definition).
How the clue works
Look at Italian dignitary — that's your first definition, the historical chief magistrate of Venice or Genoa. Then Elon Musk's baby? is cheekily pointing at Dogecoin, the cryptocurrency he's famously championed as something of a pet project, giving you a second way into the same answer.