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Woman who sinned spread over magazine to excite (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

evoke

'excite' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'woman who sinned spread over magazine' is the wordplay.
'woman who sinned' becomes 'eve' (Eve sinned in the Bible).
'spread over' indicates putting letters inside.
'magazine' becomes 'ok' (OK! is a celebrity magazine).
'eve' placed around 'ok' is 'EVOKE'.

'to' is the link.

(Other definitions for evoke that I've seen before include "Awaken memories in the mind" , "Kindle (memory)" , "Call up; elicit" , "Induce" , "Awake memories" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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