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Speech after a daughter makes love (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

adoration

'love' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'speech after a daughter' is the wordplay.
'speech' becomes 'oration' (oration is a kind of speech**).
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'a daughter' becomes 'ad' (I've seen this in other clues).
'oration' put after 'ad' is 'ADORATION'.

'makes' is the link.

(Other definitions for adoration that I've seen before include "holding someone up a lot" , "Honour" , "enormous respect" , "Not a radio (anag.)" , "praise" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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