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Alone and single, blasted about love (8)

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I believe the answer is:

isolated

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'alone' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)

'single blasted about love' is the wordplay.
'single' becomes 'I' (I as in one).
'blasted' becomes 'slated' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'love' becomes 'o' (love means zero in tennis).
'slated' going around 'o' is 'solated'.
'i'+'solated'='ISOLATED'

'and' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for isolated that I've seen before include "Quarantined, alone" , "Remote; lonely" , "Segregated" , "Idols ate (anag.)" , "Set apart, quarantined" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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