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Clinician meets noisy extremists adopting knowingly mischievous description of realm (8)

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I believe the answer is:

monarchy

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'realm' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'clinician meets noisy extremists adopting knowingly mischievous description' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'mischievous' could be 'arch' (arch can mean mischievous or playful) and 'arch' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'mony' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'of' is the link.

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(Other definitions for monarchy that I've seen before include "realm" , "Rule by a king or queen" , "kind of government" , "sort of government" , "Rule by a sovereign" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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