Willing to forgive corrupt surgeon smuggling in ecstasy (8)
I believe the answer is:
generous
'willing' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'corrupt surgeon smuggling in ecstasy' is the wordplay.
'corrupt' indicates an anagram.
'smuggling in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'ecstasy' becomes 'E' (informal term for the drug).
'surgeon' anagrammed gives 'genrous'.
'genrous' going around 'e' is 'GENEROUS'.
'to forgive' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for generous that I've seen before include "Willing to give unstintingly" , "Charitable" , "Showing largess" , "Benevolent, big-hearted" , "Open-handed" .)