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Wild former lover mentioned in documents? (7)

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I believe the answer is:

excited

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'wild' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)

'former lover mentioned in documents?' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'former' could be 'ex' (prefix meaning former or onetime) and 'ex' is present in the answer.
'mentioned' could be 'cited' ('cite' can be a synonym of 'mention') and 'cited' is located in the answer.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for excited that I've seen before include "Animated" , "Hot" , "Worked up" , "moved by emotion" , "in agitated state" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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