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Quarrelsome culture developing, not without love (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

truculent

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

'culture developing not without love' is the wordplay.
'developing' indicates an anagram.
'without' is a deletion indicator.
'love' becomes 'o' (In tennis, 'love' means 'zero').
'not' with 'o' removed is 'nt'.
'culture' with letters rearranged gives 'trucule'.
'trucule'+'nt'='TRUCULENT'

(Other definitions for truculent that I've seen before include "Defiant, rude" , "Defiantly aggressive" , "Aggressively defiant" , "Quarrelsome" , "Rude and aggressive" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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