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Starts to run over many classic old movies, this sort typical? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

romcom

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'sort typical?' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.

'starts to run over many classic old movies' is the wordplay.
'starts to' says to take the initial letters.
The first letters of 'run over many classic old movies' is 'ROMCOM'.

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(Another definition for romcom that I've seen is " Film".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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