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Girl on the outside loving and beautifully attractive (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

glamorous

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'beautifully attractive' is the definition.
'glamorous' can be an answer for 'attractive' (thesaurus). I'm not sure about the 'beautifully' bit.

'girl on the outside loving' is the wordplay.
'on the outside' means to remove the middle letters.
'loving' becomes 'amorous' (similar in meaning).
'girl' with its centre taken out is 'gl'.
'gl'+'amorous'='GLAMOROUS'

'and' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for glamorous that I've seen before include "Gorgeous" , "in a showy way?" , "Alluringly appealing" , "Excitingly attractive" , "Alluring" .)

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