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Tale of ultimate passion and wild love (5)

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I believe the answer is:

novel

'tale' is the definition.
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'ultimate passion and wild love' is the wordplay.
'ultimate' indicates one should take the final letters.
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'wild' indicates anagramming the letters.
The final letter of 'passion' is 'n'.
'love' anagrammed gives 'ovel'.
'n'+'ovel'='NOVEL'

'of' is the link.

(Other definitions for novel that I've seen before include "Fictitious prose work" , "New and strange" , "Innovative" , "Of a kind not seen before" , "Fictional work" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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