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Developed pleasure in penning two lines and good further line (4-5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

full-grown

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'developed' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'good further line' is the wordplay.
'good' becomes 'full' (synonyms).
'further line' becomes 'grown' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'full'+'grown'='FULL-GROWN'

'pleasure in penning two lines and' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.

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(Another definition for full-grown that I've seen is " Adult".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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