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Stunning woman left making confused sound (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

babel

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'confused sound' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how they can define each other.

'stunning woman left' is the wordplay.
'stunning woman' becomes 'babe' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'left' becomes 'l' (common abbreviation).
'babe'+'l'='BABEL'

'making' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for babel that I've seen before include "Confused hubbub" , "Tower built by Noah's descendants to reach to heaven" , "Vocal confusion" , "Biblical tower site" , "Confused noise - biblical tower" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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