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Puzzle deception with German drink (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

conundrum

'puzzle' is the definition.
(a conundrum is a puzzle or mystery)

'deception with german drink' is the wordplay.
'deception' becomes 'con' (a con is a trick or deception).
'with german' becomes 'und' ('and' in German).
'drink' becomes 'rum' (rum is a kind of drink).
'con'+'und'+'rum'='CONUNDRUM'

(Other definitions for conundrum that I've seen before include "Difficult question" , "It's a riddle or a hard question" , "anagram" , "That's puzzling" , "Difficult problem" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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