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A sober lover left devastated by this music (6,6)

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I believe the answer is:

ravels bolero

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'a sober lover left devastated by this music' is the definition.
'Ravel's Bolero' can be an answer for 'music' (Ravel's Bolero is a piece of music). I'm not certain of the rest of the definition.

'devastated by this music' is the wordplay.
'devastated by' becomes 'ravels' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'this music' becomes 'bolero' (bolero is a kind of music).
'ravels'+'bolero'='RAVELS BOLERO'

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