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'Titanic' is romantic and also terrible (12)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

astronomical

'titanic' is the definition.
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'romantic and also terrible' is the wordplay.
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'terrible' indicates anagramming the letters.
'romantic'+'also'='romanticalso'
'romanticalso' with letters rearranged gives 'ASTRONOMICAL'.

'is' is the link.

(Other definitions for astronomical that I've seen before include "Massive" , "Of the study of stars" , "Inconceivably large" , "Extremely large" , "Tremendous" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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