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Manage to show love with poetry and love's ending (7)

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I believe the answer is:

oversee

'manage' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'love with poetry and love's ending' is the wordplay.
'love' becomes 'o' (In tennis, 'love' means 'zero').
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'poetry' becomes 'verse' ('verse' can be a synonym of 'poetry'**).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'ending' indicates one should take the final letters.
The last letter of 'love' is 'e'.
'o'+'verse'+'e'='OVERSEE'

'to show' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for oversee that I've seen before include "Keep a check on" , "Supervise, control" , "Administer" , "Direct" , "Invigilate" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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