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After love, reap terrible drama (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

opera

'drama' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'after love reap terrible' is the wordplay.
'after' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'love' becomes 'o' (In tennis, 'love' means 'zero').
'terrible' indicates an anagram.
'reap' with letters rearranged gives 'pera'.
'o'+'pera' is 'OPERA'.

(Other definitions for opera that I've seen before include "Eg, Carmen" , "Drama or comedy set to music" , "Lulu, say" , "Musical entertainment" , "La Scala production, perhaps" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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