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Little Billy put to sleep in Shanghai? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

kidnap

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'shanghai?' is the definition.
(shanghaiing is a kind of kidnaping)

'little billy put to sleep in' is the wordplay.
'little billy put' becomes 'dna' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to sleep' becomes 'kip' ('kip' can be a synonym of 'sleep').
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'dna' placed into 'kip' is 'KIDNAP'.

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(Other definitions for kidnap that I've seen before include "Small island" , "Seize, usually for ransom" , "Shanghai, abduct" , "Abduct (a person)" , "Take as hostage" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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