A short campaign, amazingly fantastic in appearance (14)

I believe the answer is:

phantasmagoric

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'a short campaign amazingly fantastic in appearance' is the definition.
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'a short campaign amazingly' is the wordplay.
'amazingly' indicates an anagram.
'a'+'short'+'campaign'='ashortcampaign'
'ashortcampaign' with letters rearranged gives 'PHANTASMAGORIC'.

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(Other definitions for phantasmagoric that I've seen before include "like a dream" , "Dreamlike" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.

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