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Satisfied about blokes and love? It’s a thing of the past (7)

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I believe the answer is:

memento

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'a thing of the past' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'satisfied about blokes and love?' is the wordplay.
'satisfied' becomes 'met' (as in 'met the conditions of his contract').
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'blokes' becomes 'men' (bloke can informally mean a man).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'love?' becomes 'o' (love means zero in tennis).
'met' placed around 'men' is 'mement'.
'mement'+'o'='MEMENTO'

'it's' is the link.

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(Other definitions for memento that I've seen before include "trophy" , "Souvenir, reminder of past events" , "Keepsake or souvenir" , "Something kept" , "Souvenir, something to remember by" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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