Love, though I cheat and make up lies to (7)
I believe the answer is:
idolise
'love' is the definition.
('love'->'idolize' is in my internal thesaurus and 'ize'->'ise')
'i cheat and make up lies to' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'i' is present in the answer.
'cheat' could be 'do' and 'do' is found within the answer.
an anagram of 'lies' is 'lise' which is within the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
'though' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for idolise that I've seen before include "Pay inordinate attention to" , "Worship to extremes" , "put on a pedestal" , "Hero-worship, revere" , "Pay excessive attention to" .)