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True tale I adapted about rector for serious reading (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

literature

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'serious reading' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'true tale i adapted about rector' is the wordplay.
'adapted' is an anagram indicator.
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'rector' becomes 'r'.
'true'+'tale'+'i'='truetalei'
'truetalei' is an anagram of 'literatue'.
'literatue' placed around 'r' is 'LITERATURE'.

'for' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for literature that I've seen before include "fliers" , "Written material" , "Work by Spenser for instance" , "Creative writing" , "Written texts" .)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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