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Woman in front of redhead is heavenly! (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

stellar

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'heavenly' is the definition.
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'woman in front of redhead' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'woman' could be 'stella' and 'stella' is present in the answer.
'redhead' could be 'r' (the head/first letter of 'red') and 'r' is present in the answer.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

'is' is the link.

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(Other definitions for stellar that I've seen before include "Relating to the stars" , "Astral" , "Starry" , "characteristic of The Sun, etc" , "Star-like, with star quality" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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