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Short film in English not lacking love, it's plain (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

evident

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'plain' is the definition.
(I know that plain can be written as evident)

'short film in english not lacking love' is the wordplay.
'short film' becomes 'vid' (short for video; 'short' indicates an abbreviation).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'english' becomes 'E' (abbreviation).
'not lacking love' becomes 'ent' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'e'+'ent'='eent'
'vid' placed inside 'eent' is 'EVIDENT'.

'it's' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for evident that I've seen before include "Clearly apparent" , "Quite obvious, easy to see" , "Visible - plain" , "Obvious, quite apparent" , "Plain, obvious, clear" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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