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He gets a call for an audience (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hearing

'audience' is the definition.
(I know that audience can be written as hearing)

'he gets a call for an' is the wordplay.
'gets' says to put letters next to each other.
'a call' becomes 'ring' (telephone call).
'for' says to put letters next to each other (I've seen this in other clues).
'an' becomes 'a'.
'ring' after 'a' is 'aring'.
'he' put next to 'aring' is 'HEARING'.

(Other definitions for hearing that I've seen before include "Trial; sense" , "Judicial process" , "Trying" , "Audition - trial" , "Trial; one of the senses" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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