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Writer over marriage heartlessly admitted to affair (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fleming

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'writer' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'over marriage heartlessly admitted to affair' is the wordplay.
'over' is a reversal indicator.
'heartlessly' suggests removing the centre.
'admitted to' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'affair' becomes 'fling' (a fling is a romantic affair).
'marriage' with its centre taken out is 'me'.
'me' written backwards gives 'em'.
'em' put within 'fling' is 'FLEMING'.

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(Other definitions for fleming that I've seen before include "Belgian < novelist" , "Native of Flanders" , "Ian -, Bond author" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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