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Animal not quite in love with film star (2,6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

al pacino

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'film star' is the definition.
'al pacino' can be an answer for 'star'. I'm not sure about the 'film' bit.

'animal not quite in love with' is the wordplay.
'animal' becomes 'alpaca' (South American animal).
'not quite' means to remove the last letter (most but not all of the word).
'love with' becomes 'o' (love means zero in tennis. I am not sure about the 'with' bit.).
'alpaca' with its final letter removed is 'alpac'.
'alpac'+'in'+'o'='AL PACINO'

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(Other definitions for al pacino that I've seen before include "Best Actor Oscar winner 1992, for "Scent of a Woman"" , "Serpico star" .)

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