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Poison found in medicine's rapidly returned (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

arsenic

'poison' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'in medicine's rapidly returned' is the wordplay.
'in' indicates a hidden word.
'returned' says the letters should be written backwards.
'cinesra' can be found hidden inside 'medicines rapidly'.
'cinesra' back-to-front is 'ARSENIC'.

'found' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for arsenic that I've seen before include "Can rise result from poison?" , "-- and Old Lace (play)" , "killer" , "Element with many poisonous compounds" , "Poison used in pesticides and weedkillers" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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