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Deteriorate badly around noon: made to face another way (12)

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reorientated

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'to face another way' is the definition.
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'deteriorate badly around noon' is the wordplay.
'badly' is an anagram indicator (letters in the wrong order).
'around' indicates putting letters inside.
'noon' becomes 'n' (abbreviation).
'deteriorate' with letters rearranged gives 'reorietated'.
'reorietated' placed around 'n' is 'REORIENTATED'.

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