Redhead young woman in stupor, needing a third of morphine? (9)
I believe the answer is:
commissar
'redhead' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'young woman in stupor needing a third of morphine?' is the wordplay.
'young woman' becomes 'miss' (title for a young woman).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'stupor' becomes 'coma' (I've seen this in another clue).
'needing' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'a third of morphine?' becomes 'r' (3rd letter of 'morphine').
'miss' placed within 'coma' is 'commissa'.
'commissa'+'r'='COMMISSAR'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for commissar that I've seen before include "Communist official" , "Party official" , "Soviet official" , "USSR official" .)