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As a genial drunk, feeling no pain (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

analgesia

'feeling no pain' is the definition.
(analgesia is a painlessness)

'as a genial drunk' is the wordplay.
'drunk' indicates anagramming the letters.
'as'+'a'+'genial'='asagenial'
'asagenial' with letters rearranged gives 'ANALGESIA'.

(Other definitions for analgesia that I've seen before include "As a linage (anag) - insensibility to pain" , "Absence of pain" , "Inability to feel pain" , "painless" , "Loss of pain" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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