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American brain is addled about initial apathy in Scheherazade’s nights, perhaps (7)

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I believe the answer is:

arabian

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'scheherazade's nights perhaps' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'american brain is addled about initial apathy' is the wordplay.
'american' becomes 'a' (common abbreviation - e.g. in organisation names).
'is addled' indicates an anagram.
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'initial' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'apathy' is 'a'.
'brain' with letters rearranged gives 'rbian'.
'rbian' placed around 'a' is 'rabian'.
'a'+'rabian'='ARABIAN'

'in' is the link.

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(Other definitions for arabian that I've seen before include "Saudi, perhaps" , "Prized horse" , "These Nights provide fairy tales" , "Middle Easterner; horse" , "-- Gulf; -- Nights" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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