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It's too much - put in some water! (5)

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I believe the answer is:

steep

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'it's too much' is the definition.
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'put in some water' is the wordplay.
'put' becomes 'tee' (teeing is a kind of putting).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'some water' becomes 'sp' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'tee' going into 'sp' is 'STEEP'.

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(Other definitions for steep that I've seen before include "Hard for cycling" , "Soak thoroughly - precipitous" , "pickle" , "Rapidly rising" , "not reasonable" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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