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Disinfect sister ingesting a louse egg with drug (8)

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I believe the answer is:

sanitise

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'disinfect' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'sister ingesting a louse egg with drug' is the wordplay.
'sister' becomes 'sais' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'ingesting' is an insertion indicator.
'a louse egg' becomes 'nit' (I've seen this before).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'drug' becomes 'e' (E is another name for ecstasy).
'sais' enclosing 'nit' is 'sanitis'.
'sanitis'+'e'='SANITISE'

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(Other definitions for sanitise that I've seen before include "block out unpleasant things" , "Make hygienic, sterilise" , "Make hygienic being in siesta" , "disinfect" , "Clean and sterilize" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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