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Reduced charge cheers up setter's mood (10)

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I believe the answer is:

indicative

'mood' is the definition.
(indicative is a kind of mood)

'reduced charge cheers up setter's' is the wordplay.
'reduced' means to remove the last letter.
'charge' becomes 'indict' (indicting is a kind of charging).
'cheers up' becomes 'at' (I've seen this in other clues).
'setter's' becomes 'ive' (I've seen this in other clues**).
'indict' with its final letter removed is 'indic'.
'indic'+'at'+'ive'='INDICATIVE'

(Other definitions for indicative that I've seen before include "Serving as a sign" , "mood" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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