Managed to get the gang leader on the phone (4)

I believe the answer is:

rang

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'on the phone' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'managed to get the gang leader' is the wordplay.
'managed' becomes 'ran' (I've seen this before**).
'to get' says to put letters next to each other.
'leader' says to take the initial letters.
The first letter of 'gang' is 'g'.
'ran'+'g'='RANG'

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(Other definitions for rang that I've seen before include "Called" , "(Of bell) sounded" , "Chimed" , "Phoned; reverberated" , "Phoned; did resound" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.

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