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Love in pleasing Bible entry developed for novel (7,2,6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

goodbye to berlin

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'novel' is the definition.
(I have seen 'short novel' mean 'goodbye to berlin' so perhaps 'novel' could also mean 'goodbye to berlin')

'love in pleasing bible entry developed for' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'love' could be 'o' (love means zero in tennis) and 'o' is found in the answer.
'in' is found in the answer.
'for' could be 'to' (eg both can mean 'in the opinion of') and 'to' is found in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

Can you help me to learn more?

(Another definition for goodbye to berlin that I've seen is " short novel".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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