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Give support to faulty electric drones (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

endorse

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'give support to' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'faulty electric drones' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'drones' is 'endors' which is located in the answer.
A single letter 'e' remains which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for endorse that I've seen before include "Put one's name to, approve" , "Affirm" , "No reeds (anag)" , "Approve or underwrite" , "Add one's authority to" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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