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Free bar (and love) - genuine high-living? (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

arboreal

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'high-living?' is the definition.
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'free bar and love genuine' is the wordplay.
'free' indicates anagramming the letters.
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'love' becomes 'o' (In tennis, 'love' means 'zero').
'genuine' becomes 'real' ('real' is associated in meaning with 'genuine').
'bar' is an anagram of 'arb'.
'arb'+'o'+'real'='ARBOREAL'

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(Other definitions for arboreal that I've seen before include "Inhabiting trees" , "Relating to trees" , "Pertaining to trees" , "high living" , "found in 20 [TREETOP] ?" .)

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