Lovely to hand over to in a bad situation (6,4)

I believe the answer is:

pretty pass

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'lovely to hand over to' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.

'bad situation' is the wordplay.
'bad' becomes 'pretty' (similar in meaning).
'situation' becomes 'pass' (pass is a kind of situation).
'pretty'+'pass'='PRETTY PASS'

'in a' is the link.

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