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Carnal, with a bed prepared - romantic lighting? (10)

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I believe the answer is:

candelabra

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'carnal with a bed prepared romantic lighting?' is the definition.
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'carnal with a bed prepared' is the wordplay.
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'prepared' is an anagram indicator.
'a'+'bed'='abed'
'carnal' after 'abed' is 'abedcarnal'.
'abedcarnal' is an anagram of 'CANDELABRA'.

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(Other definitions for candelabra that I've seen before include "Holders for several lamps" , "Branched ornamental lamp holders" , "Kind of 1 across (correctly 1 acrosses)" , "Branched light holder" , "Lamp-holders" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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