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Moderate cider teen's drunk (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

intercede

'moderate' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'cider teen's drunk' is the wordplay.
'drunk' indicates an anagram.
'cider'+'teen'='ciderteen'
'ciderteen' is an anagram of 'INTERCEDE'.

(Other definitions for intercede that I've seen before include "plead in prayer" , "Act between parties to reconcile differences" , "Plead for someone" , "Intervene, on behalf of another" , "Come between as mediator" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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