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Leader includes awful rant in speech, only with total sincerity (5,3,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

heart and soul

'with total sincerity' is the definition.

'leader includes awful rant in speech only' is the wordplay.
'leader' becomes 'head' (head is a kind of leader**).
'includes' indicates putting letters inside.
'awful' is an anagram indicator.
'in speech' shows a homophone (sound like).
'only' becomes 'sole' ('sole' can be a synonym of 'only').
'sole' is a homophone of 'soul'.
'rant' is an anagram of 'rtan'.
'head' enclosing 'rtan' is 'heartand'.
'heartand'+'soul'='HEART AND SOUL'

(Other definitions for heart and soul that I've seen before include "With complete devotion" , "With complete sincerity" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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