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Absolutely demand extremes of loyalty (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

exactly

'absolutely' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'demand extremes of loyalty' is the wordplay.
'demand' becomes 'exact' ('exact' can be a synonym of 'demand').
'extremes of' means to remove the middle letters.
'loyalty' with its centre taken out is 'ly'.
'exact'+'ly'='EXACTLY'

(Other definitions for exactly that I've seen before include "in nice way" , "Quite so" , "With precision" , "In precise terms" , "In every respect" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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