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High singer's tango with feeling of euphoria capturing hearts (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

thrush

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'high singer's' is the definition.
'thrush' can be an answer for 'singer's' (thrush is a kind of birdanimal). I am unsure of the 'high' bit.

'tango with feeling of euphoria capturing hearts' is the wordplay.
'tango' becomes 't' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'with feeling of euphoria' becomes 'rush' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'capturing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'hearts' becomes 'h' (abbreviation used in card games e.g. bridge).
't'+'rush'='trush'
'trush' going around 'h' is 'THRUSH'.

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(Other definitions for thrush that I've seen before include "Repetitive singer" , "Songbird with brownish back and speckled breast" , "Singing bird or mouth-troat infection" , "Bird that sings" , "Mouth fungus or songbird" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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