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Love Actually expresses a point in speech (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

orally

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'in speech' is the definition.
(oral means relating to speech)

'love actually' is the wordplay.
'love' becomes 'o' (love means zero in tennis).
'actually' becomes 'rally' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'o'+'rally'='ORALLY'

'expresses a point' is the link.
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(Other definitions for orally that I've seen before include "By spoken word" , "given drugs thus?" , "By (word of) mouth" , "via the trap" , "given by mouth" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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