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Is ardent love during romantic meeting fair? (13)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dispassionate

'fair?' is the definition.
('dispassionate' can be similar in meaning to 'fair')

'is ardent love during romantic meeting' is the wordplay.
'ardent love' becomes 'passion' (I've seen this before).
'during' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'romantic meeting' becomes 'date' (I've seen this before).
'is'+'passion'='ispassion'
'ispassion' put into 'date' is 'DISPASSIONATE'.

(Other definitions for dispassionate that I've seen before include "Imperturbable" , "Objective, unemotional" , "Rational, impartial" , "Not affected by personal feelings" , "taking the unbiased view?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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