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Fruit with sharp taste the Spanish love (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tangelo

'fruit' is the definition.
(tangelo is a kind of fruit)

'with sharp taste the spanish love' is the wordplay.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'sharp taste' becomes 'tang' (I've seen this before).
'the spanish' becomes 'el'.
'love' becomes 'o' (In tennis, 'love' means 'zero').
'tang' next to 'el' is 'tangel'.
'tangel'+'o'='TANGELO'

(Other definitions for tangelo that I've seen before include "one cross, sour" , "fruitful merger?" , "Hybrid fruit; eat long (anag.)" , "Citrus fruit hybrid" , "sharp cross" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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