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Does without love -- and small fortune (7)

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I believe the answer is:

destiny

'fortune' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'does without love and small' is the wordplay.
'without' indicates named letters should be taken away.
'love' becomes 'o' (In tennis, 'love' means 'zero').
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'small' becomes 'tiny' ('tiny' can be similar in meaning to 'small'**).
'does' with 'o' taken away is 'des'.
'des'+'tiny'='DESTINY'

(Other definitions for destiny that I've seen before include "Lot" , "The future as arranged by fate" , "must?" , "Ultimate fate" , "Fortune" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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