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Love women with education to be outstanding (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

owed

'outstanding' is the definition.
('owed' can be a synonym of 'outstanding')

'love women with education' is the wordplay.
'love' becomes 'o' (In tennis, 'love' means 'zero').
'women' becomes 'w'.
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'education' becomes 'ed' (abbreviation - e.g. sex ed).
'o'+'w'+'ed'='OWED'

'to be' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for owed that I've seen before include "to be paid" , "Outstanding" , "(Sum) due for payment" , "In debt to" , "Was due to pay" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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