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Are you saying in violence there's no love, just acrimony? (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

virulence

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'acrimony?' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'are you saying in violence there's no love' is the wordplay.
'are you saying' becomes 'ru' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'there's no' is a deletion indicator.
'love' becomes 'o' (love means zero in tennis).
'violence' with 'o' removed is 'vilence'.
'ru' inserted inside 'vilence' is 'VIRULENCE'.

'just' is the link.

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(Other definitions for virulence that I've seen before include "Quality of being highly infective" , "Bitterness" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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