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Someone who loves Charlie Chaplin's debut – short act prepared with dedication (7,6)

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cocaine addict

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'someone who loves' is the definition.
'cocaine addict' can be an answer for 'someone' (cocaine addict is a kind of someone). I am not sure about the remainder of the definition.

'charlie chaplin's debut short act prepared with dedication' is the wordplay.
'charlie' becomes 'C' (phonetic alphabet).
'debut' says to take the initial letters.
'short' indicates taking the first letters.
'prepared with' indicates anagramming the letters.
The first letter of 'chaplins' is 'c'.
The initial letter of 'act' is 'a'.
'c'+'a'='ca'
'ca' anagrammed with 'dedication' makes 'ocaineaddict'.
'c'+'ocaineaddict'='COCAINE ADDICT'

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