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Wrongly take in report of girl in this place (7)

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I believe the answer is:

mishear

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'girl in this place' is the definition.
The definition suggests a verb in its base form which matches the answer.

'wrongly take in report' is the wordplay.
'wrongly' becomes 'mis' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'take' becomes 'here' (I've seen this in other clues).
'in report' indicates a 'sounds like' (homophone) clue (ie reportedly, \'we hear\').
'here' is a homophone of 'hear'.
'mis'+'hear'='MISHEAR'

'of' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for mishear that I've seen before include "Wrongly catch" , "Get wrong message" , "Fail to pick up" , "Pick up wrong" , "Incorrectly pick up" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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