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Love in a girl's embrace, soon (4)

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I believe the answer is:

anon

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'soon' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'love in a girl's' is the wordplay.
'love' becomes 'o' (love means zero in tennis).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a girl' becomes 'ann' (woman's name).
'o' placed into 'ann' is 'ANON'.

'embrace' is the link.
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(Other definitions for anon that I've seen before include "Incognito (abbrev)" , "Nameless (abbr.); soon" , "In the near future" , "Soon, in a little while" , "Presently - unattributed" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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