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Last arrow female shot in tale of wartime romance (1,8,2,4)

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I believe the answer is:

a farewell to arms

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'tale of wartime romance' is the definition.
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'last arrow female shot' is the wordplay.
'shot' indicates anagramming the letters.
'last'+'arrow'+'female'='lastarrowfemale'
'lastarrowfemale' with letters rearranged gives 'A FAREWELL TO ARMS'.

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(Other definitions for a farewell to arms that I've seen before include "comment on the Venus de Milo?" , "What Venus de Milo might have said" , "work by earnest-sounding individual" , "what one handing in weapon might say" , "Bookshop may sell this" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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