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Drug baron's end: caught with nothing stashed in lorry? (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

narcotic

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'drug' is the definition.
(I know that narcotic is a type of drug)

'baron's end caught with nothing stashed in lorry?' is the wordplay.
'end' suggests the final letters.
'caught with' becomes 'c' (cricket abbreviation. I am not sure about the 'with' bit.).
'nothing' becomes 'O' (looks like zero - 0).
'stashed in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'lorry?' becomes 'artic' (informal term for an articulated lorry).
The final letter of 'baron' is 'n'.
'c'+'o'='co'
'co' put inside 'artic' is 'arcotic'.
'n'+'arcotic'='NARCOTIC'

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(Other definitions for narcotic that I've seen before include "(Drug) inducing numbness" , "Drug that produces numbness or stupor" , "this will induce numbness" , "Drug producing torpor" , "A drug causing sleep or drowsiness" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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