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William unfortunately outed by kiss and love letter (6-4)

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I believe the answer is:

billet-doux

'love letter' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'william unfortunately outed by kiss' is the wordplay.
'william' becomes 'bill'.
'unfortunately' indicates anagramming the letters (a bad or unfortunate spelling).
'by' says to put letters next to each other.
'kiss' becomes 'x' (X can represent a kiss).
'outed' anagrammed gives 'etdou'.
'bill'+'etdou'+'x'='BILLET-DOUX'

'and' acts as a link.

(Another definition for billet-doux that I've seen is " Love letter".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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