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Almost seduce love in time (5)

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I believe the answer is:

tempo

'time' is the definition.
(tempo is a kind of time)

'almost seduce love' is the wordplay.
'almost' means to remove the last letter (most of the word but not all of it).
'seduce' becomes 'tempt' (I've seen this before).
'love' becomes 'o' (In tennis, 'love' means 'zero').
'tempt' with its last letter taken away is 'temp'.
'temp'+'o'='TEMPO'

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for tempo that I've seen before include "Pace of a musical piece" , "Rhythm or speed as in music" , "Muscial time" , "What a metronome provides" , "Rhythm, metre" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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