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Varied recitation with no love involved (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

intricate

'varied' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'recitation with no love involved' is the wordplay.
'with no' suggests deleting specific letters.
'love' becomes 'o' (In tennis, 'love' means 'zero').
'involved' is an anagram indicator (involved can mean confusing or complex).
'recitation' with 'o' taken out is 'recitatin'.
'recitatin' with letters rearranged gives 'INTRICATE'.

(Other definitions for intricate that I've seen before include "ornate" , "Very complicated and involved" , "Fancy" , "puzzling" , "Entangled" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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