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Fairly colourful glow around India (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bluish

'fairly colourful' is the definition.
(somewhat blue)

'glow around india' is the wordplay.
'glow' becomes 'blush' (blushing is a glow on the face).
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'india' becomes 'i' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'blush' placed around 'i' is 'BLUISH'.

(Other definitions for bluish that I've seen before include "shade" , "colourful" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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