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Conspicuous girl disheartened receiving a call (7)

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I believe the answer is:

glaring

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'conspicuous' is the definition.
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'girl disheartened receiving a call' is the wordplay.
'girl' becomes 'g'.
'disheartened receiving' becomes 'la' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a call' becomes 'ring' (telephone call).
'g'+'la'+'ring'='GLARING'

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(Other definitions for glaring that I've seen before include "Blatant" , "Dazzlingly bright" , "Angrily staring" , "Looking daggers; obvious (error)" , "Dazzling" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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