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Sweetheart has reason to be passionate (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

emotive

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'passionate' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'sweetheart has reason' is the wordplay.
'sweetheart' becomes 'e' (the heart/centre of 'sweet').
'has' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'reason' becomes 'motive' (I've seen this before).
'e'+'motive'='EMOTIVE'

'to be' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for emotive that I've seen before include "Move tie (anag)" , "Arousing much feeling" , "Generating feelings" , "Arousing deep feeling" , "Tending to arouse feelings" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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