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Smitten with cycling star -- our editor! (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

enamoured

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

'cycling star our editor' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'editor' could be 'ed' and 'ed' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'enamour' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'with' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for enamoured that I've seen before include "Bewitched" , "Charmed" , "Our mean Ed (anag.)" , "Besotted" , "Smitten" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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