Actor bowled over, receiving women's theatrical kiss (4)

I believe the answer is:

mwah

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'theatrical kiss' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I can't judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'actor bowled over receiving women's' is the wordplay.
'actor' becomes 'ham' (ham is a kind of actor).
'bowled over' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'receiving' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'women' becomes 'w' (standard abbreviation).
'ham' reversed gives 'mah'.
'mah' enclosing 'w' is 'MWAH'.

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(Another definition for mwah that I've seen is " Suggestion of kiss".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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