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Head over heels, finally passionate (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

nuts

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'passionate' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?

'head over heels finally' is the wordplay.
'head' becomes 'nut' (informal term for somebody's head).
'over' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (in a down clue, some letters go over others).
'finally' says to take the final letters.
The final letter of 'heels' is 's'.
'nut'+'s'='NUTS'

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(Other definitions for nuts that I've seen before include "Crazy; food" , "Nibbles" , "Potty" , "Mast - mad" , "Bolt securers" .)

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