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Corruption in the Met? I'll provide support for leader of activists always (3,3,4)

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all the time

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'always' is the definition.
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'corruption in the met? i'll provide support for leader of activists' is the wordplay.
'corruption' becomes 'the' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'in the' indicates putting letters inside.
'provide' indicates an anagram.
'support for' says to put letters next to each other (in a down clue, some letters 'support' others).
'leader of' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'activists' is 'a'.
'met'+'ill'='metill'
'metill' is an anagram of 'lltime'.
'the' going within 'lltime' is 'llthetime'.
'llthetime' after 'a' is 'ALL THE TIME'.

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(Other definitions for all the time that I've seen before include "Continuously" , "Without exception" , "Constantly" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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