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What embarassment is making girl hide? (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

misspelt

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'what embarassment is' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'girl hide?' is the wordplay.
'girl' becomes 'miss' ('miss' can be a synonym of 'girl').
'hide?' becomes 'pelt' ('pelt' can be a synonym of 'hide'**).
'miss'+'pelt'='MISSPELT'

'making' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for misspelt that I've seen before include "A character out, perhaps" , "put down in error" , "Put letters down quite wrongly" , "badly written" , "character flaw" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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