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Drug with no name? Charlie is daring (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

heroic

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'is daring' is the definition.
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'drug with no name? charlie' is the wordplay.
'drug' becomes 'H' (H is an example).
'with' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'no' becomes 'o' (resembles 0 - 'no' can mean 'zero').
'name? charlie' becomes 'eric' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'o' going inside 'eric' is 'eroic'.
'h'+'eroic'='HEROIC'

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(Other definitions for heroic that I've seen before include "larger than life" , "Undaunted" , "Extravagant" , "Valiant, courageous" , "Surpassing the ordinary, in courage say" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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