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Plenty one doles out for love? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

oodles

'plenty' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'one doles out for love?' is the wordplay.
'out' indicates an anagram (out can mean wrong or inaccurate).
'for' says to put letters next to each other (I've seen this in other clues).
'love?' becomes 'o' (In tennis, 'love' means 'zero').
'doles' is an anagram of 'odles'.
'odles' after 'o' is 'OODLES'.

(Other definitions for oodles that I've seen before include "Tons, scads" , "Informally, great quantities" , "Large indefinite number" , "Plenty" , "'Lashings, heaps (6)'" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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