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Love hunt, here sabotaged at the last minute (8,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

eleventh hour

'at the last minute' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'love hunt here sabotaged' is the wordplay.
'sabotaged' is an anagram indicator.
'love'+'hunt'+'here'='lovehunthere'
'lovehunthere' with letters rearranged gives 'ELEVENTH-HOUR'.

(Other definitions for eleventh hour that I've seen before include "a sixty-minute period" , "Latest possible time" , "Last-minute" , "Very last moment" , "well before noon" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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