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Time to reflect about hairstyle, love (5)

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I believe the answer is:

adore

'love' is the definition.
(adoring is a kind of loving)

'time to reflect about hairstyle' is the wordplay.
'time' becomes 'era' (an era is a period of time).
'to reflect' is a reversal indicator.
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'hairstyle' becomes 'do' (a hairdo).
'era' reversed gives 'are'.
'are' placed around 'do' is 'ADORE'.

(Other definitions for adore that I've seen before include "Honour" , "Love, revere intensely" , "Respect deeply" , "Very much like" , "Love to distraction" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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