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Playboy magazine's limits pushed in top cover without female (5)

Ross

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romeo

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(Other definitions for romeo that I've seen before include "Comms code for R" , "A great lover" , "suitor" , "his tragedy one was late?" , "Shakespearean character" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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