Son and second daughter abandoning hopeless witness (8)

Independent Cryptic #11988 | 5 Across | 2025-03-12
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DE S PON D ENT (despairing; hopeless) excluding (abandoning) S (son) and the second occurrence of [second] D [daughter])

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