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Charlie has synthetic material in drawer? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

crayon

'drawer?' is the definition.
(something which draws)

'charlie has synthetic material' is the wordplay.
'charlie' becomes 'C' (phonetic alphabet).
'has' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'synthetic material' becomes 'rayon' (I've seen this before).
'c'+'rayon'='CRAYON'

'in' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for crayon that I've seen before include "drawer" , "Wax colouring stick" , "Stick of coloured wax for drawing (6)" , "Writer" , "Cyrano (anag)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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