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Lover in love with Romeo, in a haze (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

amorist

'lover' is the definition.
(I know that amorist is a type of lover)

'love with romeo in a haze' is the wordplay.
'love' becomes 'o' (love means zero in tennis).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'romeo' becomes 'R' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'haze' becomes 'mist' (I've seen this in another clue).
'o'+'r'='or'
'a'+'mist'='amist'
'or' going into 'amist' is 'AMORIST'.

'in' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for amorist that I've seen before include "Writer on love" , "Lover" , "one loves" , "Ovid, for one" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sunday Times.
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