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Coke possibly seen as college guard prepared to arrest girl (5-1,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

class-a drug

'coke possibly' is the definition.
(cocaine is an example)

'college guard prepared to arrest girl' is the wordplay.
'college' becomes 'c'.
'prepared' is an anagram indicator.
'to arrest' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'girl' becomes 'lass' (lass is a kind of girl).
'guard' is an anagram of 'adrug'.
'adrug' enclosing 'lass' is 'lassadrug'.
'c'+'lassadrug'='CLASS-A DRUG'

'seen as' is the link.

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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