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Attractive girl embracing Charlie (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

catchy

'attractive' is the definition.
('catchy' can be similar in meaning to 'attractive')

'girl embracing charlie' is the wordplay.
'girl' becomes 'cathy' (**).
'embracing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'charlie' becomes 'c' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'cathy' placed around 'c' is 'CATCHY'.

(Other definitions for catchy that I've seen before include "Of a tune, lively and easy to remember" , "Of tune, pleasant and easily remembered" , "Staying in the mind of a tune" , "like certain tunes?" , "what's full of snags, perhaps" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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