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Women
protecting
daughters
and
sons
maybe
(7)
Women protecting daughters and sons maybe (7)
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How the clue works
Look at sons maybe as your definition — laddies are boys, after all. LADIES (women) "protects" (contains) D, the abbreviation for daughter, slotting it in to give you LAD-D-IES.