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Indifferent to resident in attack (5)

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I believe the answer is:

stoic

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'indifferent' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'to resident in attack' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'to' is found in the answer.
'attack' could be 'sic' (sicking is a kind of attacking) and 'sic' is located in the remaining letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for stoic that I've seen before include "Greek in school" , "Someone seemingly indifferent to pleasure or pain" , "One showing endurance during adversity" , "not given to complaining" , "One who endures pain with equanimity" .)

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