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Happy carol, treated as unauthenticated (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

apocryphal

'unauthenticated' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'happy carol treated' is the wordplay.
'treated' is an anagram indicator.
'happy'+'carol'='happycarol'
'happycarol' is an anagram of 'APOCRYPHAL'.

'as' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for apocryphal that I've seen before include "Fabulous" , "probably made-up" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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