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Juliet finally in mood for Romeo? (7)

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I believe the answer is:

tempter

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'romeo?' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?

'juliet finally in mood' is the wordplay.
'juliet finally' becomes 't' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'mood' becomes 'temper' ('temper' can be a synonym of 'mood').
't' placed within 'temper' is 'TEMPTER'.

'for' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for tempter that I've seen before include "seducer" , "Siren" , "Someone offering enticements" , "Satan" , "One who entices to do wrong" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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