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Suspect male reader is one into fantasy (7)

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I believe the answer is:

dreamer

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'one into fantasy' is the definition.
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'suspect male reader' is the wordplay.
'suspect' is an anagram indicator (a suspicious or unusual spelling).
'male' becomes 'm' (common abbreviation).
'm'+'reader'='mreader'
'mreader' is an anagram of 'DREAMER'.

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(Other definitions for dreamer that I've seen before include "Romantic" , "One lost in abstraction" , "One imagines" , "One fantasising" , "One who tends to live in an unreal world" .)

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