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Revolutionary way to inject drug (3)

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I believe the answer is:

red

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'revolutionary' is the definition.
(red can informally mean a communist)

'way to inject drug' is the wordplay.
'way' becomes 'e' (Compass direction - East).
'to inject' is an insertion indicator (inserted letters are injected).
'drug' becomes 'rd' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'e' placed into 'rd' is 'RED'.

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(Other definitions for red that I've seen before include "Florid" , "- Cross; - carpet" , "- Cross; - admiral" , "eg Cardinal" , "Blushing" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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