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Romantic couple not excited: back to being boring through trip (9)

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coleridge

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'romantic' is the definition.
(Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

'back to being boring through trip' is the wordplay.
'back to' says to take the final letters.
'boring' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters must 'bore' a hole into other letters).
'through' becomes 'cole' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'trip' becomes 'ride' (eg a trip in a car).
The final letter of 'being' is 'g'.
'cole'+'ride'='coleride'
'g' inserted within 'coleride' is 'COLERIDGE'.

'couple not excited' acts as a link.
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(Other definitions for coleridge that I've seen before include "Samuel Taylor . . . . . . . . ., eminent poet" , "Exponent of art" , "Ancient Mariner poet" , "Kubla Khan poet" , "Samuel Taylor . . . . . . . . . who wrote 'The Ancient Mariner'" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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