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Time boyfriend takes unfinished meth and weed out (9)

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I believe the answer is:

eradicate

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'weed out' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'time boyfriend takes unfinished meth' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'time' could be 'era' (era is a kind of time) and 'era' is found within the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'and' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for eradicate that I've seen before include "Excise" , "Destroy completely" , "Dispose of" , "Kill" , "Scotch" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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