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Area mostly foolish to accept dead end - something extra needed (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

addendum

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'area' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't understand how one could define the other.

'mostly foolish to accept dead end something extra needed' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'dead' is 'adde' which is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for addendum that I've seen before include "Something attached to the end, say of book" , "Textual matter added on" , "Extra item added to book or text" , "Supplementary text tacked on to the end" , "Thing to be added" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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