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Absent-minded head of BBC came down after broadcast (14)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

scatterbrained

'absent-minded' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'head of bbc came down after broadcast' is the wordplay.
'head of' says to take the initial letters.
'came down' becomes 'rained' (raining is a kind of coming down).
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'broadcast' becomes 'scatter' (broadcast can mean to scatter seeds).
The initial letter of 'bbc' is 'b'.
'b'+'rained'='brained'
'brained' put after 'scatter' is 'SCATTERBRAINED'.

(Other definitions for scatterbrained that I've seen before include "Careless" , "Inclined to forget" , "easily distracted - with 20d" , "poorly focused on the task?" , "Disorganised and unable to concentrate" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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