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Career despair for Ms Dare, cryptically? (9,6)

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I believe the answer is:

shattered dreams

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'career despair' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'ms dare cryptically?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'ms' is within the answer.
an anagram of 'dare' is 'drea' which is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'shattered' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'for' acts as a link.

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