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In low spirits with the media indeed (9)

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I believe the answer is:

depressed

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'in low spirits' is the definition.
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'with the media indeed' is the wordplay.
'with' indicates putting letters inside.
'the media' becomes 'press' (the press is part of the media).
'indeed' becomes 'deed' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'press' put within 'deed' is 'DEPRESSED'.

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(Other definitions for depressed that I've seen before include "Unhappy, despondent" , "Indented or melancholy" , "Flattened downward" , "25 [BLUE]" , "Downhearted" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Independent.
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