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Suspect a trap after I'm on Ecstasy (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

imagine

'suspect' is the definition.
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'a trap after i'm on ecstasy' is the wordplay.
'trap' becomes 'gin' (I've seen this before**).
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'ecstasy' becomes 'e' (informal term for the drug).
'a' put next to 'gin' is 'agin'.
'agin' put after 'im' is 'imagin'.
'imagin'+'e'='IMAGINE'

(Other definitions for imagine that I've seen before include "Fancy - Lennon song" , "Believe to be so, suppose" , "See something that doesn't exist" , "Assume" , "Reckon" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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