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One suffering endlessly evil spell (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

victim

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'one suffering' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

'endlessly evil spell' is the wordplay.
'endlessly' means to remove the last letter.
'evil' becomes 'vice' (vice is a kind of evil).
'spell' becomes 'tim' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'vice' with its last letter taken away is 'vic'.
'vic'+'tim'='VICTIM'

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(Other definitions for victim that I've seen before include "Casualty of a crime" , "sacrificed animal" , "One suffers from adverse circumstances" , "Person injured or killed in accident" , "One killed, hurt or duped" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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