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Bond welcomes brilliant rant (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tirade

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'rant' is the definition.
(both can mean an angry outburst)

'bond welcomes brilliant' is the wordplay.
'bond' becomes 'tie' (both can mean a connection).
'welcomes' means one lot of letters goes inside another (in sense of 'invites in').
'brilliant' becomes 'rad' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'tie' placed around 'rad' is 'TIRADE'.

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(Other definitions for tirade that I've seen before include "A prolonged outburst of angry words" , "Vocal abuse" , "A prolonged outburst of abuse" , "Verbal onslaught" , "Long angry harangue" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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