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Wino died after trip in dark, delirious (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

drunkard

'wino' is the definition.
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'died after trip in dark delirious' is the wordplay.
'died' becomes 'd' (abbreviation next to the year of someone's death).
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'trip' becomes 'run' (running is a kind of tripping).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'delirious' indicates anagramming the letters (I've seen this in other clues).
'dark' anagrammed gives 'kard'.
'run' inserted inside 'kard' is 'runkard'.
'd'+'runkard'='DRUNKARD'

(Other definitions for drunkard that I've seen before include "Habitual inebriate" , "alkie" , "One regularly intoxicated" , "Alcoholic" , "Sot, addicted drinker" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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