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Professed a love to embrace Victor and get married (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

avowed

'professed' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'a love to embrace victor and get married' is the wordplay.
'love' becomes 'o' (love means zero in tennis).
'to embrace' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'victor' becomes 'V' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'get married' becomes 'wed' (synonyms).
'a'+'o'='ao'
'ao' placed around 'v' is 'avo'.
'avo'+'wed'='AVOWED'

(Other definitions for avowed that I've seen before include "Declared" , "Professed" , "Openly asserted" , "Confessed openly" , "Acknowledged" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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