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Vitamin primarily alleviating discomfort if colic's bad (5,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

folic acid

'vitamin' is the definition.
(folic acid is a kind of vitamin)

'primarily alleviating discomfort if colic's bad' is the wordplay.
'primarily' indicates taking the first letters.
'bad' indicates anagramming the letters.
The initial letters of 'alleviating discomfort' is 'ad'.
'ad'+'if'+'colic'='adifcolic'
'adifcolic' is an anagram of 'FOLIC ACID'.

(Another definition for folic acid that I've seen is " Vitamin of the B complex".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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