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Some taco ingredients turned out to make them incredibly drowsy (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

comatose

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'drowsy' is the definition.
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'some taco ingredients' is the wordplay.
'ingredients' indicates anagramming the letters.
'some'+'taco'='sometaco'
'sometaco' anagrammed gives 'COMATOSE'.

'turned out to make them incredibly' acts as a link.
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(Other definitions for comatose that I've seen before include "Deeply unconscious" , "Fast asleep" , "Somnolent" , "Very drowsy, perhaps unconscious" , "Sandman called" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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