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Badly create alien initially and so on (2,6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

et cetera

'and so on' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'badly create alien initially' is the wordplay.
'badly' is an anagram indicator.
'alien' becomes 'et' (extra terrestrial).
'initially' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'create' with letters rearranged gives 'cetera'.
'cetera' after 'et' is 'ET CETERA'.

(Other definitions for et cetera that I've seen before include "Etc" , "something similar" , "Drive out, expel" , "That can reduce length of sentence" , "Including other similar items" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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