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Sweetheart not heartless with cool allure (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

entice

'allure' is the definition.
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'sweetheart not heartless with cool' is the wordplay.
'sweetheart' becomes 'e' (the heart/centre of 'sweet').
'heartless' suggests removing the centre.
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'cool' becomes 'ice' (icing is a kind of cooling).
'not' with its middle taken out is 'nt'.
'e'+'nt'+'ice'='ENTICE'

(Other definitions for entice that I've seen before include "alluring" , "Tempt, lead astray" , "Attract with offers" , "to offer temptation" , "Attract with inducement" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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