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Drive back social outcast that must be put up (5)

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I believe the answer is:

repel

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'drive back social outcast that' is the definition.
'repel' can be an answer for 'drive back' (thesaurus). I am not sure about the rest of the definition.

'must be put up' is the wordplay.
'must' becomes 'le' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'be put' becomes 'per'.
'up' says the letters should be written backwards (in down clue: letters go upwards).
'le'+'per'='leper'
'leper' back-to-front is 'REPEL'.

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(Other definitions for repel that I've seen before include "push off" , "Be effective in controlling" , "oppose" , "Be impervious to" , "Drive back, rebuff" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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