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Love embraced by dunderhead or eejit (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

adore

'love' is the definition.
(adoring is a kind of loving)

'embraced by dunderhead or eejit' is the wordplay.
'embraced by' indicates a hidden word (surrounding letters embrace the answer).
'ADORE' is hidden within 'dunderhead or eejit'.

(Other definitions for adore that I've seen before include "Very much like" , "Like a lot" , "Worship and glorify" , "Love, revere intensely" , "Honour" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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