### Clue: Meter maid is grim dictator at heart (4)
### Answer: RITA 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Meter maid
 **Middle 2 letters, respectively, of**(… at heart) "grim dictator".
Defn: "Lovely Rita", the parking meter maid/traffic warden in the Beatles song.**
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