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Heading is: "Top player gets into Trouble" (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

caption

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'heading' is the definition.
(I know that caption is a type of title)

'top player gets into trouble' is the wordplay.
'top player' becomes 'cap' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'gets' is an insertion indicator.
'trouble' indicates an anagram.
'into' anagrammed gives 'tion'.
'cap' put within 'tion' is 'CAPTION'.

'is' is the link.

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(Other definitions for caption that I've seen before include "Elegance of dress" , "Explanation of an illustration" , "Explanatory words or heading" , "accompanying message" , "Legend with a photograph" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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