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Woman taking local dope is the butt of a joke (5,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

april fool

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'a joke' is the definition.
(April fool is an example)

'woman taking local dope is the butt' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'woman' could be 'april' and 'april' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'fool' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

'of' is the link.

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(Other definitions for april fool that I've seen before include "One taken in" , "Seasonal victim" , "Spring hoax victim" , "gullible person" , "Spring dupe!" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times and the Irish Times (Crosaire).
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