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Goddess caught in passion by sweetheart (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hecate

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'goddess' is the definition.
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'caught in passion by sweetheart' is the wordplay.
'caught' becomes 'c' (cricket abbreviation).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'passion' becomes 'heat' ('heat' can be a synonym of 'passion').
'by sweetheart' becomes 'e' (the heart/centre of 'sweet'. I am not sure about the 'by' bit.**).
'c' put within 'heat' is 'hecat'.
'hecat'+'e'='HECATE'

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(Other definitions for hecate that I've seen before include "underworld figure" , "Divine witch" , "Goddess of dark places gets the ace" , "Greek goddess of witchcraft and ghosts" , "evil witch" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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