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Catch a Romeo during play dwelling on a heavenly body? (9)

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I believe the answer is:

planetary

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'catch a romeo during play dwelling on a heavenly body?' is the definition.
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'catch a romeo during play' is the wordplay.
'catch' becomes 'net' (net can mean to catch).
'romeo' becomes 'r' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'during' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'net'+'a'+'r'='netar'
'netar' going into 'play' is 'PLANETARY'.

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(Other definitions for planetary that I've seen before include "Of Mars and Uranus, say" , "Relating to bodies in the solar system" , "Of any heavenly body moving round the sun" .)

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