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Absurd request -- go bananas (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

grotesque

'absurd' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'request go bananas' is the wordplay.
'bananas' is an anagram indicator (bananas can informally mean crazy).
'request'+'go'='requestgo'
'requestgo' anagrammed gives 'GROTESQUE'.

(Other definitions for grotesque that I've seen before include "Bizarre; monstrous" , "Horribly distorted" , "Fantastically hideous" , "Bizarre and disfigured - preposterous" , "Freakish" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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