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Something
possibly
sugared
in
water
turned
up,
sweet
(8)
Something possibly sugared in water turned up, sweet (8)
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How the clue works
The sweet here is a LOLLIPOP. Take PILL (something possibly sugared) sitting inside POOL (water), then read the whole lot backwards for "turned up" — the reversal turns POOL into LOOP wrapped around a reversed PILL (LLIP), giving LO-LLIP-OP.