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Day before a diet, nuts gorged (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

satiated

'gorged' is the definition.
('satiate' can be a synonym of 'gorge')

'day before a diet nuts' is the wordplay.
'day' becomes 'sat' (I've seen this before**).
'before' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'nuts' is an anagram indicator (nuts can mean crazy).
'a'+'diet'='adiet'
'adiet' anagrammed gives 'iated'.
'sat'+'iated'='SATIATED'

(Other definitions for satiated that I've seen before include "Filled to repletion" , "Too full, having eaten excessively" , "Stuffed, glutted" , "Glutted or cloyed with excess (8)" , "Replete or surfeited" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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