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Is she asinine when drunk? (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

annie

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'drunk?' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?

'is she asinine when' is the wordplay.
'is she' becomes 'ann' (I've seen this before).
'asinine' becomes 'i' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'when' becomes 'e' (I've seen this in other clues).
'ann'+'i'+'e'='ANNIE'

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(Other definitions for annie that I've seen before include "Musical based on cartoon strip" , "1977 Broadway musical" , "Oakley, Laurie or Hall" , "-- Oakley (Wild West)" , "Popular musical about Little Orphan" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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