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Pleasure is fantastic, possibly embracing love (12)

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I believe the answer is:

satisfaction

'pleasure' is the definition.
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'is fantastic possibly embracing love' is the wordplay.
'possibly' indicates an anagram.
'embracing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'love' becomes 'o' (In tennis, 'love' means 'zero').
'is'+'fantastic'='isfantastic'
'isfantastic' is an anagram of 'satisfactin'.
'satisfactin' placed around 'o' is 'SATISFACTION'.

(Other definitions for satisfaction that I've seen before include "I can't get no - (Rolling Stones)" , "Gratification" , "Contentment; reparation" , "Fulfilment; compensation" , "Pleasure" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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