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Allege beauty mostly misrepresented in sports ranking (6,5)

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I believe the answer is:

league table

'sports ranking' is the definition.
(a ranking of teams in a league)

'allege beauty mostly misrepresented' is the wordplay.
'mostly' means to remove the last letter.
'misrepresented' indicates anagramming the letters.
'allege'+'beauty'='allegebeauty'
'allegebeauty' with its last letter taken off is 'allegebeaut'.
'allegebeaut' anagrammed gives 'LEAGUE TABLE'.

'in' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for league table that I've seen before include "Team ranking" , "record of sporting achievement" , "Chart of competitors" , "List of teams setting out their relative performance" , "Comparison of merit" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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