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Height of joy? Collecting fragments of Everest (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

elevation

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'height' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'joy? collecting fragments of everest' is the wordplay.
'joy?' becomes 'elation' (elation is a kind of joy).
'collecting' is an insertion indicator.
'fragments of everest' becomes 'ev' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'elation' going around 'ev' is 'ELEVATION'.

'of' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for elevation that I've seen before include "Height - a live note (anag)" , "plan" , "Height - promotion" , "high ground" , "Side of a building; height" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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