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Philistine's with a drink, exhausted, drained and unreal (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

imagined

'unreal' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)

'philistine's with a drink exhausted drained' is the wordplay.
'philistine's' becomes 'I'm' (where the crossword setter is 'Philistine').
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'a drink' becomes 'agin' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'drained' means to remove the middle letters.
'exhausted' with its middle taken out is 'ed'.
'im'+'agin'+'ed'='IMAGINED'

'and' is the link.

(Other definitions for imagined that I've seen before include "Fancied" , "Dreamed" , "Created mentally" , "thought" , "Envisaged" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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