Weed out taking back LSD E and speed (9)

Independent Cryptic #11939 | 9 Across | 2025-01-14
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

The word order is somewhat misleading here: it’s E (for the surface, we can read this as a slang abbreviation for the drug ecstasy) + RATE (speed), containing ACID (slang for LSD = abbreviation for the hallucinogenic drug lysergic acid diethylamide) reversed (back).

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