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Pot, joint along with alcoholic drink for pompous official (10)

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I believe the answer is:

panjandrum

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'pompous official' is the definition.
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'pot joint along with alcoholic drink' is the wordplay.
'pot' becomes 'pan' (I've seen this before).
'joint along' becomes 'j' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'with' becomes 'and'.
'alcoholic drink' becomes 'rum' (alcoholic spirit).
'pan'+'j'+'and'+'rum'='PANJANDRUM'

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(Other definitions for panjandrum that I've seen before include "man of great influence" , "pompous official" , "Person in high authority" , "influential man" , "Big cheese" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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