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Listen, Do You Want To Know A Secret? (pop song with some terrific leads) (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

psst

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'listen do you want to know a secret?' is the definition.
(sound used to whisper to someone)

'pop song with some terrific leads' is the wordplay.
'pop song' becomes 'ps' (this could be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'leads' says to take the initial letters.
The first letters of 'some terrific' is 'st'.
'ps'+'st'='PSST'

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(Other definitions for psst that I've seen before include "Notice me" , "Call to attract attention" , "This is confidential" , "Whispered exclamation to attract attention" , "Interjection to attract someone's attention without alerting others" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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