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Picture showing anger perhaps about cocaine (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

emoticon

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'picture' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether this works.

'anger perhaps about cocaine' is the wordplay.
'anger perhaps' becomes 'emotion' (anger is a kind of emotion).
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'cocaine' becomes 'C' (drugs abbreviation).
'emotion' enclosing 'c' is 'EMOTICON'.

'showing' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for emoticon that I've seen before include "symbol of modern communication" , "Representation of a facial expression in electronic messages" , "Graphic way of conveying feeling in e-mails" , "Wordless expression" , "state of mind symbol" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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