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Deeply involved with taking rook in opener (5)

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I believe the answer is:

intro

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'rook in opener' is the definition.
'intro' can be an answer for 'opener' (I've seen this before). I am unsure of the 'rook in' bit.

'deeply involved with taking' is the wordplay.
'deeply' becomes 'r' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'involved with' becomes 'into' (I've seen this before).
'taking' indicates putting letters inside.
'r' going into 'into' is 'INTRO'.

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(Other definitions for intro that I've seen before include "Opening bars to a piece of popular music" , "Opening notes" , "One starts" , "Lead-in" , "First bars of a musical composition" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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