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Vendetta draining resistance from psychoanalyst (4)

Ross

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feud

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'vendetta' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'resistance from psychoanalyst' is the wordplay.
'resistance' becomes 'r' (electronics abbreviation).
'from' indicates named letters should be taken away.
'psychoanalyst' becomes 'freud' (Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis).
'freud' with 'r' taken away is 'FEUD'.

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(Other definitions for feud that I've seen before include "Quarrel; spat" , "quarrel without end" , "Conflict" , "Sustained enmity" , "Piece of land once" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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