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Understand about opening heart in solemn procession (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

cortege

'solemn procession' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'understand about opening heart' is the wordplay.
'understand' becomes 'get' (getting is a kind of understanding).
'about' is a reversal indicator.
'opening' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters open a gap in others).
'heart' becomes 'core' ('core' can be a synonym of 'heart').
'get' reversed gives 'teg'.
'teg' placed within 'core' is 'CORTEGE'.

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for cortege that I've seen before include "train" , "Processing figures" , "Entourage, retinue" , "Solemn funeral procession" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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