Is girl taken in by naughty lad getting the boot? (9)

Guardian Cryptic #29192 | 7 Down | 2023-10-04
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

An envelope (‘taken in by’) of ‘is’ plus MISS (‘girl’) in DAL, an anagram (‘naughty’) of ‘lad’. I have included ‘getting’ in the definition, as a gerund, but it could be just a link word, with ‘the boot’ as definition.

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