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Cockney supported love-in, and fooled with lover? (6)

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eloped

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'fooled with lover?' is the definition.
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'cockney supported love-in' is the wordplay.
'cockney supported' becomes ''elped' ('helped' - helping is a kind of supporting - said with a cockney accent, dropping the 'H').
'love' becomes 'o' (love means zero in tennis).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'elped' enclosing 'o' is 'ELOPED'.

'and' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for eloped that I've seen before include "Ran away to get married" , "Ran away to marry" , "Went off" .)

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