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Improve intros to main elements later in talk (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

meliorate

'improve' is the definition.
(I know that improve can be written as meliorate)

'intros to main elements later in talk' is the wordplay.
'intros to' indicates taking the first letters.
'talk' becomes 'orate' (to orate is to give a speech).
The initial letters of 'main elements later in' is 'meli'.
'meli'+'orate'='MELIORATE'

(Another definition for meliorate that I've seen is " Improve".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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