Could it be entitled 'The Start of New Love Ruined'? (5)

I believe the answer is:

novel

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'could it be entitled 'the' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'start of new love ruined'?' is the wordplay.
'start of' indicates taking the first letters.
'ruined'?' is an anagram indicator.
The initial letter of 'new' is 'n'.
'love' is an anagram of 'ovel'.
'n'+'ovel'='NOVEL'

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(Other definitions for novel that I've seen before include "A work of fiction of new kind" , "Romance - new" , "New sort of fiction?" , "Fresh" , "Volume of prose fiction" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Independent.

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