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Intense feeling I don't know in suppressing love (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

passion

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'intense feeling' is the definition.
'passion' can be an answer for 'feeling' (passion is a kind of feeling). I am not sure about the 'intense' bit.

'i don't know in suppressing love' is the wordplay.
'i don't know' becomes 'pass' ('pass' is said to skip a question).
'suppressing' is an insertion indicator.
'love' becomes 'o' (love means zero in tennis).
'in' placed around 'o' is 'ion'.
'pass'+'ion'='PASSION'

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(Other definitions for passion that I've seen before include "Intense emotion, anger or love" , "fire" , "Rage" , "Intense enthusiasm for something" , "thing one really cares about" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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