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Saw heartless, vile male ousting daughter in tune, stopping charity track (4,2,4,2,3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

love me love my dog

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'saw heartless vile male ousting daughter in tune stopping charity' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'track' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'track' could be 'dog' ('dog' can be a synonym of 'track') and 'dog' is found within the answer.
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(Other definitions for love me love my dog that I've seen before include "Take us or leave us!" , "Saying attributed to one showing at Cruft's" , "proposing marriage?" , "Feel affection for a couple of setters?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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