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Feigned and fanciful fact-feed (8)

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I believe the answer is:

affected

'feigned' is the definition.
('affect' can be a synonym of 'feign')

'fanciful fact-feed' is the wordplay.
'fanciful' indicates an anagram (a fanciful or silly ordering of the letters).
'fact'+'feed'='factfeed'
'factfeed' with letters rearranged gives 'AFFECTED'.

'and' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for affected that I've seen before include "in a pretentious way" , "attacked" , "Artificial of manner, pretentious" , "Putting on airs, being emotionally moved" , "Influenced or touched by an external factor" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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