Introduction to Lily Savage overwhelms celebrity (5)

I believe the answer is:

glory

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'celebrity' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'introduction to lily savage overwhelms' is the wordplay.
'introduction to' indicates taking the first letters.
'savage' becomes 'gory' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'overwhelms' is an insertion indicator.
The first letter of 'lily' is 'l'.
'l' placed inside 'gory' is 'GLORY'.

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(Other definitions for glory that I've seen before include "Resplendent brightness" , "Magnificence" , "widespread praise" , "See 8" , "The Power and the . . . . . (Graham Greene)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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