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Engaged a fun, flirty individual as new corporate entertainment director first of all (9)

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I believe the answer is:

affianced

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'engaged' is the definition.
('affiance' can be a synonym of 'engage')

'a fun flirty individual as new corporate entertainment director first of all' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'a' could be 'an' and 'an' is found in the answer.
'individual' could be 'i' (Roman numeral for one, ie individual) and 'i' is found within the answer.
'director' could be 'd' (abbreviation eg in film reviews) and 'd' is found within the answer.
'first' could be 'a' (first letter of the alphabet) and 'a' is found within the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Another definition for affianced that I've seen is " Betrothed".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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