Social meeting place, a blessing in disguise close to bedsitter (7,3)

I believe the answer is:

singles bar

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'social meeting place' is the definition.
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'a blessing in disguise close to bedsitter' is the wordplay.
'in disguise' is an anagram indicator.
'close to' says to take the final letters (the close/ending of).
The last letter of 'bedsitter' is 'r'.
'a'+'blessing'='ablessing'
'ablessing' with letters rearranged gives 'singlesba'.
'singlesba'+'r'='SINGLES BAR'

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(Other definitions for singles bar that I've seen before include "Place for picking up" , "Meeting-place" , "ban on certain records?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.

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