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Given medicine, does drunk do without love? (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dosed

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

'does drunk do without love?' is the wordplay.
'drunk' is an anagram indicator.
'without' indicates named letters should be taken away.
'love?' becomes 'o' (In tennis, 'love' means 'zero').
'do' with 'o' taken away is 'd'.
'does' anagrammed gives 'dose'.
'dose'+'d'='DOSED'

(Other definitions for dosed that I've seen before include "Gave medicine to" , "Medicated" , "Administered a portion of medicine to" , "Administered a drug to" , "Given a drug" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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