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It's true, I tell tales to keep son in worship (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

idolise

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'worship' is the definition.
('worship'->'idolize' is in my internal thesaurus and 'ize'->'ise')

'it's true i tell tales to keep son' is the wordplay.
'it's true i' becomes 'ido' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'tell tales' becomes 'lie' (I've seen this before).
'to keep' is an insertion indicator.
'son' becomes 's'.
'lie' enclosing 's' is 'lise'.
'ido'+'lise'='IDOLISE'

'in' is the link.

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(Other definitions for idolise that I've seen before include "Revere (someone) greatly or excessively" , "Worship and adore" , "Make into a figure of worship" , "Worship to extremes" , "Love too much" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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