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Seduce bandmate ultimately, by wild living (with injected drug) (8)

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I believe the answer is:

inveigle

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'seduce' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'bandmate ultimately by wild living with injected drug' is the wordplay.
'ultimately' suggests the final letters.
'by' says to put letters next to each other.
'wild' indicates an anagram.
'with' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'injected drug' becomes 'e' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
The last letter of 'bandmate' is 'e'.
'living' is an anagram of 'invigl'.
'invigl' placed around 'e' is 'inveigl'.
'e' put after 'inveigl' is 'INVEIGLE'.

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(Other definitions for inveigle that I've seen before include "Persuade by cajolery" , "Persuade by trickery - given lie (anag)" , "Coax, cajole" , "Induce by trick, cajole" , "Lead on, entice" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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